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:I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I almost had a pyschic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.[Steven Wright] Quote:Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Love is friendship set on fire.[Jeremy Taylor] Quote:Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:Real love stories never have endings.[Richard Bach] Quote:Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.[Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.[Victor Hugo] Quote:A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can crash, drip, flow...be water my friend.[Bruce Lee] Quote:I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.[Mother Teresa] Quote:People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.[Mother Teresa] Quote:We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.[Mother Teresa] Quote:It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.[Julius Caesar] Quote:Wars are caused by undefended wealth.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.[Alexis Dupuy] Quote:Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.[GK Chesterton] Quote:When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn't exist?[Chris Bowyer] Quote:Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] 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:Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes.[Dave Barry] Quote:On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:Fantasy is a necessary ingrediant in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:Act like you expect to get into the end zone.[Christopher Morley] Quote:A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.[Robert Frost] Quote:A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.[Robert Frost] Quote:I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.[Robert Frost] Quote:Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.[John Donne] Quote:If God had wanted us to spend our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have invented beer.[Dave Barry] Quote:To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.[Dave Barry] Quote:I realise that I'm making gender-based generalizations here, but my feeling is that if God did not want us to make gender-based generalizations, She would not have given us genders.[Dave Barry] Quote:The ACLU is always yakking about the Constitution, and most of us are getting mighty tired of it. I mean, if the Constitution is so great, how come it was amended so many times? Huh?[Dave Barry] Quote:We should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot.[Dave Barry] Quote:In some versions of my original contest column I had proposed, in a lighthearted manner, that we reduce the deficit by 'selling unnecessary states such as Oklahoma to the Japanese.' This caused a number of Oklahomans to send in letters containing many correctly spelled words and making the central lighthearted point that I am a jerk. They also sent me official literature stating that Oklahoma has enormous quantities of culture in the form of ballet, Oral Roberts, etc., and that the Official State Reptile -- I am not making this up -- is something called the 'Mountain Boomer.' So I apologize to Oklahoma, and as a token of my sincerity I'm willing to sell my state, Florida, to the Japanese, assuming nobody objects to the fact that Japan would suddenly become the most heavily armed nation on Earth.[Dave Barry] Quote:The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.[Charles Caleb Colton] 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:You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.[Aristotle] Quote:Happiness depends upon ourselves.[Aristotle] Quote:My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.[Aristotle] Quote:No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.[Aristotle] Quote:Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.[Victor Hugo] Quote:When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.[Colin Powell] Quote:I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.[Mark Twain] Quote:I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.[Mark Twain] Quote:I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.[Mark Twain] Quote:Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.[Mark Twain] Quote:The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.[Mark Twain] Quote:Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.[Stephen King] Quote:The argument is at an end.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.[Aristotle] Quote:We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.[Bill Cosby] Quote:All splendid things are rare.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.[Charles Caleb Colton] 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:Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.[Mike Tyson] Quote:There is no friend as loyal as a book.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.[George Carlin] Quote:It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.[Groucho Marx] Quote:I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.[Martin Farquhar Tupper] Quote:Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.[Confucius] Quote:I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The only way to have a friend is to be one.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:True friends stab you in the front.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Where knowledge ends, religion begins.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.[Helen Keller] Quote:History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.[Rita Mae Brown] Quote:The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.[Karl Marx] Quote:The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:It's easier to build a boy than to mend a man.[Charles Gavin] Quote:Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, <b[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.[Albert Camus] Quote:Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.[Albert Camus] Quote:Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.[Mark Twain] Quote:If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.[Doug Larson] Quote:If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.[Mark Twain] Quote:I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; head you win, tail, you lose.[Author Unknown] Quote:Success is dependent upon the glands; sweat glands.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.[Daniel Webster] Quote:It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Wisdom begins at the end.[Daniel Webster] Quote:No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.[Reinhold Niebuhr] Quote:Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.[Laura Ingalls Wilder] Quote:I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.[Charles Dickens] Quote:Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.[Adam Smith] Quote:Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.[Adam Smith] Quote:How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.[Adam Smith] Quote:Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.[Francis Bacon] Quote:I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.[Ann D. Parrish] Quote:Arbitration is justice blended with charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith, loses all.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.[Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.[Ansel Adams] Quote:The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.[Amy Bloom] Quote:Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If we don?t end war, war will end us.[H.G. Wells] Quote:Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.[George MacDonald] Quote:Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.[William Blake] Quote:If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.[Jack Handey] Quote:We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Boldness be my friend.[William Shakespeare] Quote:All malice has injustice at it's end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.[Alphonse Karr] Quote:Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.[Sam Brown] Quote:We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody![John Adams] Quote:It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.[John Adams] Quote:Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.[Gene Brown] Quote:A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.[Amanda Grier] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.[Plato] Quote:Friends have all things in common.[Plato] Quote:We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. [Herb Caen] Quote:I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. [Herb Caen] Quote:When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' [Steven Wright] Quote:A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. [Arthur Brisbane] Quote:Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. [Ovid] Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? "Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever." A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. [Amos Bronson Alcott] Quote:The quality of mercy is not strain'd, <br>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven <br>Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: <br>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. <br>'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes <br>The throned monarch better than his crown; <br>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, <br>The attribute to awe and majesty, <br>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; <br>But mercy is above this sceptred sway, <br>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, <br>It is an attribute to God himself; <br>And earthly power doth then show likest God's, <br>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, <br>Though justice be thy plea, consider this, <br>That in the course of justice none of us <br>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; <br>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render <br>The deeds of mercy. [William Shakespeare] Quote:What a splendid head, yet no brain. [Aesop] Quote:It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. [Aeschylus] Quote:You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law. [Josh Brand and John Falsey] Quote:Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war? [Jawaharlal Nehru] Quote:Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. [Abigail Adams] Quote:Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. [Chuck] Quote:Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. [Mark Twain] Quote:To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. [Moliere] Quote:Nothing endures but change. [Heraclitus] Quote:Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. [Cicero] Quote:The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. [Cicero] Quote:If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. [Tallulah Bankhead] Quote:There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' [Andre Gide] Quote:Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. [Charles Dickens] Quote:It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. [Bette Davis] Quote:Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. [Aristophanes] Quote:Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. [Jules Renard] Quote:Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. [Jules Renard] Quote:It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. [Colette] Quote:Total absence of humor renders life impossible. [Colette] Quote:Total absence of humor renders life impossible. [Colette] Quote:They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers. [David Assael] Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs] Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs] Quote:The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br>And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [Andre Maurois] Quote:Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. [Robert Graves] Quote:Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. [Albert Camus] Quote:The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. [George Orwell] Quote:Have no friends not equal to yourself. [Confucius] Quote:The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. [Confucius] Quote:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. [Confucius] Quote:My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. [Jean Rostand] Quote:If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. [Epictetus] Quote:After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. [Henry Bromel] Quote:If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. [Brendan Francis] Quote:Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. [George Eliot] Quote:Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. [Eddie Cantor] Quote:It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence. [Marquis de Vauvenargues] Quote:Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. [Anne-Sophie Swetchine] Quote:He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br>And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [Aristotle] Quote:Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. [Aristotle] Quote:Happiness depends upon ourselves. [Aristotle] Quote:Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. [Aristotle] Quote:I know indeed what evil I intend to do,<br>but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,<br>fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. [Euripides] Quote:What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. [Josh Billings] Quote:People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. [Margaret Cho] Quote:All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. [D. H. Lawrence] Quote:Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. [Franklin P. Jones] Quote:The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James] Quote:Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. [Neil Armstrong] Quote:Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. [Sallust] Quote:Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. [Socrates] Quote:There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. [Charles Rosin] Definitions of: endDefinition: The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part.Definition: Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. Definition: Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. Definition: The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends. Definition: That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. Definition: One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. Definition: To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends. |
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