Topic: Quotes of the day (QOTD) (Read 23945 times)

Penthome · « **Reply #120 on:** January 29, 2010, 02:44:50 PM »

"I find that the harder I work, the
more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
- Russell Baker

Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

Penthome · « **Reply #121 on:** January 29, 2010, 03:20:11 PM »

"To guarantee success, act as
if it were impossible to fail."
- Dorothea Brande

Penthome · « **Reply #122 on:** January 30, 2010, 11:39:44 AM »

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
-Jeff Marder

"Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved."
- Winston Churchill

Penthome · « **Reply #123 on:** January 30, 2010, 05:44:24 PM »

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
- Peter Ustinov
History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
- Charles Peters

Penthome · « **Reply #124 on:** January 31, 2010, 09:07:32 PM »

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Arthur Koestler
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
- Thomas Pickering
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler

"The difference between the impossible
and the possible lies in a
person's determination."
- Tommy Lasorda

Penthome · « **Reply #125 on:** February 01, 2010, 08:35:53 AM »

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
-Margaret Thatcher

"They can conquer who
believe they can."
- Virgil

mona · « **Reply #126 on:** February 01, 2010, 11:02:11 PM »

the true measure of a man is how he treats an individual who can do him absolutely no good.

jammielagos · « **Reply #127 on:** February 02, 2010, 01:43:52 AM »

Inspiring Quotes

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.

To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.

To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.

Penthome · « **Reply #128 on:** February 02, 2010, 07:02:37 AM »

"It is our choices...that show what we
truly are, far more than our abilities"
- J. K. Rowling

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
-Homer

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
- Marcus Brigstocke

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
- E. B. White

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
- Vic Gold

Penthome · « **Reply #129 on:** February 03, 2010, 05:34:40 AM »

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
- E. Joseph Cossman
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Penthome · « **Reply #130 on:** February 05, 2010, 05:11:14 PM »

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
- Casey Stengel

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-Stephen Leacock

"Achievement seems to be connected
with action. Successful men and
women keep moving. They make
mistakes, but they don't quit."
- Conrad Hilton

Penthome · « **Reply #131 on:** February 06, 2010, 01:01:14 PM »

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
- Jim Morrison

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
- Clifton Fadiman

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson

Penthome · « **Reply #132 on:** February 07, 2010, 12:19:55 PM »

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton

Penthome · « **Reply #133 on:** February 07, 2010, 02:36:37 PM »

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
-Margaret Thatcher

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence...Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

Penthome · « **Reply #134 on:** February 08, 2010, 10:44:02 AM »

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." - John Maxwell

Penthome · « **Reply #135 on:** February 08, 2010, 10:56:56 AM »

Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.
- David Shore

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
- Robertson Davies

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. - Oscar Wilde

Penthome · « **Reply #136 on:** February 08, 2010, 03:01:30 PM »

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie

Solimontero1 · « **Reply #137 on:** February 08, 2010, 05:50:15 PM »

When the going gets tough, only the tough gets going

Penthome · « **Reply #138 on:** February 09, 2010, 12:08:51 AM »

You may delay but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin

Penthome · « **Reply #139 on:** February 09, 2010, 09:42:02 AM »

"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."- Ann Landers

Penthome · « **Reply #140 on:** February 09, 2010, 10:03:54 AM »

"There's only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything." - Vince Lombardi

Penthome · « **Reply #141 on:** February 09, 2010, 11:06:22 AM »

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

Man: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. -Ambrose Bierce

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. - Dylan Thomas

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
- Bertrand Russell

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- H. L. Mencken

Penthome · « **Reply #142 on:** February 09, 2010, 07:16:16 PM »

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-Albert Einstein

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

Penthome · « **Reply #143 on:** February 09, 2010, 08:37:33 PM »

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.-
Oscar Wilde

Penthome · « **Reply #144 on:** February 10, 2010, 10:00:58 AM »

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
- Clint Eastwood

Penthome · « **Reply #145 on:** February 11, 2010, 08:52:49 AM »

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."- Lou Holtz

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. - Pearl S. Buck

Penthome · « **Reply #146 on:** February 11, 2010, 07:35:59 PM »

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle

Never judge a book by its movie.
- J. W. Eagan

Penthome · « **Reply #147 on:** February 11, 2010, 10:33:52 PM »

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi

Penthome · « **Reply #148 on:** February 11, 2010, 10:37:09 PM »

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful
form of love. In return, you will receive
untold peace and happiness."
- Dr. Robert Muller

Penthome · « **Reply #149 on:** February 12, 2010, 04:16:12 PM »

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
- Margaret Thatcher

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
- Sir Thomas Beecham

News:

Recent Posts

Quick Menu

RUBMINDS.COM FORUM INDEX

Author Topic: Quotes of the day (QOTD) (Read 23945 times)