Month: November 2009

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it! -Day, Doris

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue -Barney, Natalie Clifford

“The limitations are limitless.” Beck quotes

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. -Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is the passions that do and undo everything. Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier quotes

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar — you pretend it’s not there. Hannah, Daryl quotes

The average person’s ear weighs what you are, not what you were. Quarles, Francis quotes

Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies. Jones quotes

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. Hume, David quotes

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. – Carlyle, Thomas

A scalded cat dreads cold water. -Proverb

Praise the sea; on shore remain. -Florio, John

“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.” Garth Brooks quotes

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me. -Frost, Robert

In his private heart no man much respects himself. -Twain, Mark

“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” Roger quotes

Good council has no price. -Mazzini, Giuseppe

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is …

She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. McGill, Ralph quotes

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. Tracy, Brian quotes

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself. Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) quotes

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. Sanders, George quotes

I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. Renoir, Pierre Auguste quotes

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. – Howe, Edgar Watson

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. -Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Half this game is 90% mental. -Ozark, Danny

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. -Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

“The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, …

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

I think we’re here for each other. -Burnett, Carol

“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.” Lactantius quotes

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen. -Drucker, Peter F.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Cowper, William quotes

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog — keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe. Westcott, Edward Noyes quotes

Nature does not give to those who will not spend… Baughan, R.J. quotes

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -Vries, Peter De

Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sons are things. -Walton, Izaak

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. -Milton, John

We?re sleeping and there?s a bunch of creepy old dudes molesting us. -Dye, James

War is a contagion. -Roosevelt, Franklin D.