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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
~wise old sayings by Buddha
Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.
~inspirational sayings about Wise Words quotes by M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~wise old quotes by Charles W. Eliot
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
~famous quotes about Civilization by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
~wise old sayings by Frank Tyger
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
~wise old sayings by Samuel Hoffenstein
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
~inspirational sayings about Night quotes by Rachel Carson
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.
~wise old quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
~famous quotes about Beauty by Rachel Carson
Man would be otherwise. That's the essence of the specifically human.
~wise old sayings by Antonio Machado
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
~wise old sayings by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
~inspirational sayings about Adversity quotes by William Shakespeare
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
~wise old quotes by Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Neibuhr
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
~famous quotes about Wise Words by Oscar Wilde
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
~wise old sayings by Winston Churchill
I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.
~wise old sayings by Ernest van den Haag, psychotherapist
No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.
~good sayings about Scrapbooking by Author Unknown, The Scrappers Creed
We need - and should encourage and honour - not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.
~wise old quotes by Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University
The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out from the waving folds of this banner
~motivational quotes about Flag Day sayings by Author Unknown
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
~wise old sayings by T.S. Eliot, New York Post, 22 September 1963
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.
~wise old sayings by Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.
~good sayings about Religion by John Updike, A Month of Sundays, 1975
To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems
~wise old quotes by Homer Simpson
History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others.
~motivational quotes about History sayings by Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
~wise old sayings by Lewis Hine
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
~wise old sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking.
~good sayings about Relationship by Scarecrow
The winner does in the beginning what the failure does in the end – learns from others.
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Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
~motivational quotes about Feminism sayings by Betty Friedan
When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles.
~wise old sayings by Neil Simon
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~wise old sayings by Albert Schweitzer
No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
~good sayings about Media Journalism by Nicolas Bentley
Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
~wise old quotes by William Shakespeare, As You Like It
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want
~motivational quotes about Party Invitations sayings by Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
~wise old sayings by William Safire
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