Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:He listens well who takes notes.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Well done is better than well said.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.[Dave Barry] Quote:Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.[Dave Barry] Quote:Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.[Dave Barry] Quote:Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells, each one wriggling in its own direction, totally confident it knows where it is going, to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.[Dave Barry] Quote:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote:When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep well?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'[Steven Wright] Quote:Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.[Aristotle] Quote:My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.[Aristotle] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.[George Washington] Quote:I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I stopped getting the girl about ten years ago. Which is just as well because I'd forgotten what I wanted her for.[John Wayne] Quote:Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.[Daniel Webster] Quote:There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.[Daniel Webster] Quote:When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.[Anatole France] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote:It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.[Dave Barry] Quote:Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.[Fred Allen] Quote:Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. [Ovid] Quote:One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. [Amos Bronson Alcott] Quote:The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. [Pearl Buck] Quote:God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. [Anonymous] Quote:Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. [Mark Twain] Quote:Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. [Cicero] Quote:We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. [J. R. R. Tolkien] Quote:Live well. It is the greatest revenge. [The Talmud] Quote:Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. [Anatole France] Quote:When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. [Anatole France] Quote:You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. [Carrie Fisher] Quote:The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Definitions of: wellDefinition: An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.Definition: A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in. Definition: A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine. Definition: Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring. Definition: An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection. Definition: A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market. Definition: A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water. Definition: A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit. Definition: A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. Definition: An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. Definition: The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. Definition: To pour forth, as from a well. Definition: Good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as, it is well for the country that the crops did not fail; it is well that the mistake was discovered. Definition: Being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well. Definition: Being in favor; favored; fortunate. Definition: Safe; as, a chip warranted well at a certain day and place. |
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