ghetto sayings & quotes

Men must be decided on what they will not do

2008-11-17T08:19:00.003-08:00

Today is your day Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.
~Author : Theodor Seuss Geisel Motivational Sayings

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
~Author : Mencius Famous Quotes

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."
~Author : Josef Stalin Inspirational Sayings

Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
~Author : Thomas Huxley Nice Quotes

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
~Author : George Will Great Sayings

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.
~Author : Ogden Nash Meaningful Sayings

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
~Author : Henry J Tillman Motivational Sayings

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Famous Quotes

California, the department store state.
~Author : Raymond Chandler Inspirational Sayings

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
~Author : Helen Keller Nice Quotes

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
~Author : Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus Great Sayings

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.
~Author : D A Battista Meaningful Sayings

I wish scientists would come up with a way to make dogs

2008-11-17T08:18:00.000-08:00

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~Author : William Penn Wise Quotes

I wish scientists would come up with a way to make dogs a lot bigger, but with a smaller head. That way, they'd still be good as watchdogs, but they wouldn't eat so much.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Motivational Sayings

That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.
~Author : FW Lawvere Famous Quotes

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
~Author : Charles Spurgeon Inspirational Sayings

It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

The world isn?t interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.
~Author : Raul Armesto Great Sayings

Marcus Aureluis Meaningful Sayings

2008-10-19T02:34:00.003-07:00

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
~Author : Marcus Aureluis Meaningful Sayings

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
~Author : Henry Ford Wise Quotes

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
~Author : Charles Hendrickson Brower Motivational Sayings

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
~Author : Voltaire Famous Quotes

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each others lives.
~Author : Hugh Elliott Inspirational Sayings

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
~Author : Confucius The Confucian Analects Nice Quotes

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
~Author : Swedish Proverb Great Sayings

William Makepeace Thackeray Nice Quotes

2008-10-19T02:34:00.001-07:00

To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.
~Author : William Makepeace Thackeray Nice Quotes

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
~Author : Author Unknown Great Sayings

Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Meaningful Sayings

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
~Author : Thomas Carlyle Wise Quotes

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
~Author : Frank Zappa Motivational Sayings

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
~Author : Eric Hoffer The True Believer 1951 Famous Quotes

Dwight D Eisenhower Famous Quotes

2008-10-19T02:33:00.000-07:00

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Famous Quotes

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
~Author : Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck Inspirational Sayings

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.
~Author : Edward M Kennedy Nice Quotes

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
~Author : Edgar Watson Howe Great Sayings

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
~Author : Fritz Kunkel Meaningful Sayings

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
~Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon Wise Quotes

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
~Author : Henry Wallace Speech in New York City May 8 1942 Motivational Sayings

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
~Author : Sydney Smith Famous Quotes

I have never found, in a long experience of politics,

2008-10-08T08:03:00.003-07:00

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
~Author : Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Great Sayings

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
~Author : Harold Macmillan Wall Street Journal Aug 13 1963 Meaningful Sayings

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.
~Author : Clive Staples Lewis Wise Quotes

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Motivational Sayings

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes

The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.
~Author : Arabic Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
~Author : Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Nice Quotes

It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".

2008-10-08T08:03:00.001-07:00

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death
~Author : Plato Inspirational Sayings

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Nice Quotes

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Great Sayings

Patience is the key to paradise.
~Author : Turkish Proverb Meaningful Sayings

It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
~Author : Cicero Wise Quotes

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
~Author : Hannah Green Motivational Sayings

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.
~Author : M Morris Famous Quotes

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world,

2008-10-08T08:02:00.001-07:00

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
~Author : Henry Louis Mencken Famous Quotes

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
~Author : Arthur Schopenhauer Inspirational Sayings

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
~Author : Melissa Timberman Nice Quotes

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
~Author : Edna St Vincent Millay Great Sayings

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.
~Author : Tom Gates Meaningful Sayings

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner.
~Author : Max Lerner Wise Quotes

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

2008-10-02T06:27:00.003-07:00

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
~Author : Noel Coward Famous Quotes

We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.
~Author : Euell Gibbons Inspirational Sayings

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
~Author : Robert J Sawyer Nice Quotes

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Great Sayings

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
~Author : Lord Acton Letter to Mary Gladstone 1881 Meaningful Sayings

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Wise Quotes

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
~Author : George Iles Motivational Sayings

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else
~Author : George Stanley McGovern Famous Quotes

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
~Author : George Jean Nathan Inspirational Sayings

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

2008-10-02T06:27:00.001-07:00

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
~Author : Arnold Edinborough Famous Quotes

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
~Author : Stanislaw Lec Inspirational Sayings

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
~Author : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Nice Quotes

If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible.
~Author : Nancy Drew Great Sayings

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
~Author : Marie Curie letter to her brother 1894 Meaningful Sayings

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
~Author : Alfred North Whitehead Wise Quotes

It?s a wonder man can eat at all, when things are big that should be small.
~Author : Jamiroquai Virtual Insanity Motivational Sayings

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Famous Quotes

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
~Author : Margaret Mead Inspirational Sayings

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
~Author : Kin Hubbard Nice Quotes

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.
~Author : Simeon Strunsky Great Sayings

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
~Author : Annie Dillard Meaningful Sayings

The way we see the problem is the problem.
~Author : Stephen R Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Wise Quotes

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Motivational Sayings

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

2008-10-02T06:26:00.000-07:00

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about.
~Author : Joseph Epstein Famous Quotes

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
~Author : Paul Brown Inspirational Sayings

What is originality Undetected plagiarism.
~Author : William Ralph Inge Nice Quotes

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
~Author : Clarence Darrow Great Sayings

Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
~Author : Bernard De Voto Meaningful Sayings

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
~Author : Laurence J Peter Wise Quotes

A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a 1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web.
~Author : Karen Burka Motivational Sayings

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.

2008-09-30T08:09:00.003-07:00

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
~Author : Horace Walpole Motivational Sayings

He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Famous Quotes

In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Sayings

While there's life, there's hope.
~Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero Nice Quotes

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.
~Author : Charles Kingsley Great Sayings

The game is afoot.
~Author : Sir Arther Connan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Meaningful Sayings

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.
~Author : Arnold Schwarzenegger Wise Quotes

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
~Author : Turkish Proverb Motivational Sayings

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
~Author : Adam Clayton Jr Powell Famous Quotes

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for So you can make a bigger salary than other people
~Author : Beah Richards Inspirational Sayings

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'
~Author : Wilson Mizner Nice Quotes

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
~Author : William Lloyd Garrison Great Sayings

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

2008-09-30T08:09:00.001-07:00

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
~Author : Confucius Inspirational Sayings

Too bad there's not such a thing as a GOLDEN skunk, because you'd probably be PROUD to be sprayed by one.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Nice Quotes

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
~Author : Samuel McChord Crothers The Gentle Reader Great Sayings

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
~Author : Jackie Mason Meaningful Sayings

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
~Author : Morris Adler Wise Quotes

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
~Author : Warren Buffett Motivational Sayings

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
~Author : Sylvia Plath Famous Quotes

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Inspirational Sayings

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
~Author : Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks Nice Quotes

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

2008-09-30T08:08:00.004-07:00

Austin Powers Do I make you horny Randy Do I make you horny, baby, yeah, do I
~Author : Austin Powers International Man of Mystery Nice Quotes

Merrill One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking beautiful. So, I lean in to kiss her, and I realize I have gum in my mouth. So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a paper cup. I turn back, and Amanda McKinney throws up all over herself. I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
~Author : Signs Great Sayings

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
~Author : Ray Knight Meaningful Sayings

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
~Author : Zeuxis Wise Quotes

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
~Author : Hesiod Motivational Sayings

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Famous Quotes

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
~Author : James Joseph Sylvester Inspirational Sayings

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
~Author : Elie Wiesel Nice Quotes

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
~Author : Richard Feynman Great Sayings

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
~Author : Jeseph Joubert Inspirational Sayings

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
~Author : Fred Astaire Nice Quotes

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
~Author : Demosthenes Great Sayings

Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
~Author : H Hahn Blavatsky Meaningful Sayings

So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)
~Author : Terence Wise Quotes

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
~Author : Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Motivational Sayings

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Famous Quotes

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
~Author : Robert Fulghum Inspirational Sayings

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.

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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
~Author : George Eliot Famous Quotes

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Sayings

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.
~Author : Mark Twain Nice Quotes

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
~Author : Robert Oxton Bolt Meaningful Sayings

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Wise Quotes

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
~Author : H L Mencken Motivational Sayings

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword
~Author : Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes