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  Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
 ~old sayings by From the television show The Wonder Years

  To neglect learning in your youth is to be lonesome in old age.
 ~inspirational sayings about Attitude quotes by

  My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for fourUnless there are three other people
 ~old quotes by Orson Welles

  Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
 ~famous quotes about Ideals by George Bernard Shaw

  We never grow old. We get old when we stop growing. Keeping useful keeps us youthful.
 ~old sayings by

  You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem
 ~old sayings by Doug Hall

  Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man, never to behold the sun's scorching rays; but if one is born, then one is to press as quickly as possible to the portals of Hades, and rest there under the earth.
 ~inspirational sayings about Curmudgeons quotes by Thiognis

  Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.
 ~old quotes by Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969

  If you're caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
 ~famous quotes about Golf by Lee Trevino

  If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
 ~old sayings by Josh Billings

  Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
 ~old sayings by Epicurus

  Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, You can't keep a good man down. Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
 ~inspirational sayings about Society quotes by John W. Gardner

  Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold
 ~old quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald

  The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
 ~famous quotes about Attitude by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
 ~old sayings by John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

   The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
 ~old sayings by John Sladek

   To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves
 ~good sayings about Dreams by Peter McWilliams Author

   Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of goldBut other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow
 ~old quotes by Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

   Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
 ~motivational quotes about College sayings by L.L. Hendren

   If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
 ~old sayings by Anonymous Teacher

   Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
 ~old sayings by Saint Augustine

   The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements - a job, a meal and a woman.
 ~good sayings about Men by Martin H. Fischer

   There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
 ~old quotes by G.K. Chesterton

   When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
 ~motivational quotes about Animal Rights sayings by Marv Levy

   For 200 years we've been conquering NatureNow we're beating it to death
 ~old sayings by Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

   I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.
 ~old sayings by Gene Perret

   Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
 ~good sayings about Carpe Diem by Nicolas de Chamfort

   Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
 ~old quotes by Fran Lebowitz

   Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
 ~motivational quotes about Helping sayings by Mother Teresa

   See love is not who you can live with it's the one you can't live without.
 ~old sayings by

   I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
 ~old sayings by Albert Einstein

   Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
 ~good sayings about Confidence by Mary Kay Ash

   Learning only from our own experience is like learning the traffic rules by accident.
 ~old quotes by

   Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
 ~motivational quotes about Effort sayings by Swami Sivananda

   Depression is rage spread thin.
 ~old sayings by George Santayana

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