2006-11-03 01:14:41 · 13 answers · asked by .. 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
‘’Be very careful if you make a woman cry, Because God counts her tears, the woman came out of the mans rib, not from his feet to be walked on; not from his head to be superior, but from the side to be his equal, under his arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.’‘
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond
People in Life who are the happiest don’t have the best of everything....
They make the best of everything they have.
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Somewhere there’s’ someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presense that life is worthwhile, So when you are lonely, remember its true, Somebody Somewhere is thinking of you.
It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
"Grass may look greener on the other side, but in reality, its the same shade of green, just a different cut. But there are times when change must happen and we are to MAKE THE BEST OF IT !!!!!!"
2006-11-03 01:25:50 · answer #1 · answered by HereweGO 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host"
Dorothy Parker
"Outside of a dog; a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog it is too dark to read."
Mark Twain
"Don't explain; don't complain."
Katherine Hepburn
"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."
Mae West
"A bird does not sing becasue it knows the answer; a bird sings because it has a song."
Maya Angelou
"There are no right answers to wrong questions."
Ursula LeGuin
2006-11-03 07:15:10 · answer #2 · answered by Mod M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
“We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.”
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started”
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses”
“The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
“Only a life lived for others is worth living”
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.”
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he should be, and he will become what he could be.”
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
The only justification for ever looking down on someone is to lift them up.
The fellow who has no money is poor; the fellow who has nothing but money is poorer still.
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry”
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
“The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand”
“It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.”
“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it”
“The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.”
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
“Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process.”
“If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.” - Anthony Robbins
“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.” -Marlene Dietrich
2006-11-03 01:43:57 · answer #3 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
2006-11-03 01:29:01 · answer #4 · answered by Ace Librarian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
2006-11-03 01:32:32 · answer #5 · answered by hpasi923 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twixt optimist and pessimist
The difference is quite droll.
The optimist sees the dough nut
The pessimist sees the hole.
2006-11-03 11:35:15 · answer #6 · answered by Pearl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok ill jus keep it simple
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
-Voltaire
"If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor."
-Voltaire
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
-JRR Tolkein
2006-11-03 02:21:30 · answer #7 · answered by En 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones; and when you have... accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." ~ Victor Hugo
2006-11-03 01:22:07 · answer #8 · answered by Marie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because a person has a right to do something, it doesn't make him right in doing it.
2006-11-03 01:22:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again
-Buffalo Bill
2006-11-03 01:22:27 · answer #10 · answered by ijustcamehere4freefood 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋