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Quotes Of Fate Fortune And Luck [3107]

esah — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:10:55 +0000

Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“Fate laughs at probabilities”.
Quotes by Anita Brookner
“All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and…you don’t win the favour of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold”.
Quotes by Elizabeth Dorothea
“Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat”.
Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others”.
Quotes by Samuel Beckett
“What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes”.
Quotes by Francis Bacon
“If a man look sharply, and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she may be blind, yet she is not invisible”.
Quotes by Anonymous
“Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn. Fortune often lends her smiles as churls do money, to undo the debtor. Fortune wearies with carrying one and the same man always. Lucky men need no counsel”.

Quotes Of God And Religion [2807]

esah — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:24:26 +0000

Quotes by Charles Robert Darwin
“The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Deity”.
Quotes by William Cowper
“Oh! for a closer walk with God”.
Quotes by Sir Noel Coward
“Life without faith is an arid business”.
Quotes by Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
“The most perfect idea of God that we can form in this life is that of an independent, unique, infinite, external, omnipotent, immutable, intelligent and free First Cause, whose power extends over all things”.

Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
“Men will wrangle for religion;

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write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but – live for it”.

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“He prayeth best, who loveth best, All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. He who begins by loving Christiannity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all”.
Quotes by Arthur Hugh Clough
“And almost everyone when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Incline to think there is a God, Or something very like Him. thou shalt have one God only; who Would be at the expense of two?”
Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of a God”.
Quotes by Charles V
“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse”.

Quotes Of The Natural World [2707]

esah — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:51:06 +0000

Quotes by Carolus Linnaeus
“Nature does not proceed by leaps. If a tree dies, plant another in its place”.
Quotes by Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
“In nature there can never be two beings that are exactly alike. There is nothing uncultivated, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; there is no chaos, no confusion except in appearance”.
Quotes by Charles Lamb
“I must confess that I am not romance-hit about nature. The earth, the sea, and sky (when all is said) is but as a house to dwell in”.
Quotes by Juvenal
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another”.
Quotes by James Joyce
“The snotgreen sea. The scrumtightening sea”.
Quotes by Phyllis Dorothy James
“A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city”.
Quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley
“For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them”.
Quotes by Ted Hughes
“Pike, three inches long, perfect, Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin. They dance on the surface among the flies”.
Quotes by William Henry Hudson
“I…thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness”.
Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
“There be beasts that, at year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten”.

Quotes of Wit and Humor [2307]

esah — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:09:42 +0000

Quotes by Phillip Dormer Stanhope
“If you have wit, use to place, and not to hurt; you may shine, like the sun in the temperate zones, without scorching. Here it is wished for; under the Line, it is dreaded.Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.”
Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world”

Quotes Of Eternity Time And The Seasons [2207]

esah — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:52:55 +0000

Quotes by Tennessee Williams
“Time is the longest distance between two places”.
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
“And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl”.
Quotes by Isaac Watts
“A thousand ages in thy sight, Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away”.
Quotes by Sir William Watson
“April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter, Then, the moment after, Weep thy golden tears!”
Quotes by Virgil or Vergil
“Time meanwhile flies, flies never to return”.
Quotes by Henry Vaughan
“I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv’n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov’d; in which the world, And all her train were hurl’d”.
Quotes by James Grover Thurber
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead”.
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Time is but the stream I go fishing in”.

Quotes Of Health And Medicine [2007]

esah — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:09:33 +0000

Quotes by The Bible
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Death flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour. Be not slow to visit the sick. Health and good estate of body are above all gold. Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. The Most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them. He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician”.
Quotes by St Benedict
“Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself”.
Quotes by Francis Bacon
“The remedy is worse than the disease”.
Quotes by Anonymous
“Health is not valued till sickness comes. God heals, and the doctor takes the fee”.
Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties”.
Quotes by Alexander the Great
“I die by the help of too many physicians”.
Quotes by Aeschylus
“There is a limit to the best of health: disease is always a near neighbour”.
Quotes by Joseph Addison
“Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other”.

Quotes Of Sports And Games [1807]

esah — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:42:55 +0000

Quotes by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons”.
Quotes by Christine Marie Evert
“In tennis, at the end of the day you’re a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand…I don’t need that any more. I don’t need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing”.
Quotes by Joe DiMaggio
“A ball player’s got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues”.
Quotes by William Cowper
“[On hunting] Detested sport, that owes its pleasure to another’s pain”.
Quotes by John Calvin Coolidge
“Baseball is our national game”.
Quotes by Linford Christie
“I run with a controlled fear of losing. When you are frightened in that way it’s amazing what you can achieve”.
Quotes by Jimmy Cannon
“Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime”.
Quotes by Frank Bruno
“Boxing is just show-business with blood“.
Quotes by The Bible
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? I like the hunting of the hare, Better than that of the fox”.
Quotes by Sir John Betjeman
“Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We in the tournament – you against me! Pam, I adore you, you great big mountainous sport girl, Whizzing them over the net, full of the strength of five”.

Quotes Of Money And Wealth [1607]

esah — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:37:32 +0000

Quotes by Sir Walter Scott
“If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down, To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung”.
Quotes by Bertrand Russell
“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly”.
Quotes by John Ruskin
“Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor”.
Quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million”.
Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures”.
Quotes by Joan Robinson
“Owning capital is not a productive activity”.
Quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus
“You must spend money, if you wish to make money”.
Quotes by Samuel Pepya
“This morning came home my fine camlet cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it”.
Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock
“Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent”.

Quotes Of War And Peace [1407]

esah — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:50:28 +0000

Quotes Of God And Religion [1207]

esah — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:51:06 +0000

Quotes by Jonathan Swift
“We have just enough religion us hate, but not enough to make us love one another”.
Quotes by August Strindberg
“To search for God and to find the Devil – that is what happened to me”.
Quotes by Robert Louis
“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort”.
Quotes by Laurence Sterne
“Whenever a man talks loudly against religion – always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions which have got the better of his creed. The excellency of this text is that it will suit any sermon, – and of this sermon, – that it will suit any text. “God tempers the wind,” said Maria, ” to the shorn lamb.”
Quotes by Phillip Dormer Stanhope
“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company”.
Quotes by Sydney Smith
“As the French say, there are three sexes – men, women, and clergymen”.
Quotes by Philip Henry Sheridan
“If I owned Texas and , I would rent out Texas and live in Hell”.

Quotes Of Eating And Drinking [1107]

esah — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:33:09 +0000

Quotes by Marie Antoinette
“Let them eat cake”.
Quotes by Henry Sambrooke Leigh
“If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your clinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till it’s toasted – or stale”.
Quotes by Fran Lebowitz
“A great many people in Los Angeles are on strict diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely-held belief that organically grown fruit and vegetables make the cocaine work faster”.
Quotes by George Martin Lane
“The waiter roars it through the hall: “We don’t give bread with one fish-ball.”
Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
“I shall dine late; but the dining room will be well lighted, the guests few and select”.
Quotes by James Kirkup
“Lumps of sparking sugar, Sling themselves out of their crystal bowl, With a disordered fountain’s, Ornamental stops and starts. The milk desribes a permanent parabola, Girdled with satellites of spinning tarts”.
Quotes by Juvenal
“Bread and circuses”.
Quotes by Benjamin Jonson
“Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I’ll not look for wine”.
Quotes by Dr Samuel Johnson
“For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner”.

Quotes Of Language Word And Speech [1007]

esah — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:32:34 +0000

Quotes by Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein
“Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it.”
Quotes by George Wither
“And I oft have heard defended. Little said is soonest mended.”
Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
“For of all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ” It might have been!”
Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
“Language is incomplete and fragmentary, and merely registers a stage in the average advance beyond ape-mentality. But all men enjoy flashes of insight beyond meanings already stabilized in etymology and grammar.”
Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
“The dream of the American male is for a female who has an essential languor which is not laziness, who is unaccompanied except by himself, and who does not let him down. He desires a beautiful, but comprehensible creature who does not destroy a perfect situation by forming a complete sentence.”
Qutoes by John Webster
“A mere tale of a tub, my words are idle.”
Quotes by Peter De Vries
“This person has a deluge of words and a drizzle of thought.”
Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
“For words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
Quotes by Johanthan Swift
“Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, Far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.”
Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss
“Language is a kind of human reason, which has its own internal logic of which man knows nothing.”
Quotes by Gertrude Stein
“Ida never spoke, she just said what she pleased. Dear Ida.”