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Calamity, nA more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering
~common sayings by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
~inspirational sayings about Helping quotes by Jan de Hartog, The Lamb's War
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right
~common quotes by H.L. Mencken, 1956
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.
~famous quotes about Sports by Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch, 1992
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
~common sayings by
Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
~common sayings by Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experienceLove moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in he
~inspirational sayings about Get Well Soon quotes by Larry Dossey
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
~common quotes by David Byrne
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
~famous quotes about Poetry by William Bolitho
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
~common sayings by Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, 1820
The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy
~common sayings by Sam Levenson
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, are right
~inspirational sayings about Democracy quotes by H. L. Mencken
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense
~common quotes by Helen Rowland
Common sense is not so common.
~famous quotes about Intelligence by Voltaire
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
~common sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, 1872
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
~common sayings by T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
~good sayings about Happiness by Werner Erhard
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
~common quotes by Diana Cortes
Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.
~motivational quotes about American football sayings by Tim Green
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
~common sayings by G.K. Chesterton
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
~common sayings by John Gardner
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
~good sayings about Wise Words by Texan Proverb
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
~common quotes by Benjamin Franklin
A thousand men can't undress a naked man.
~motivational quotes about Philosophical sayings by Greek Proverb
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
~common sayings by George Washington Carver
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
~common sayings by Carl G. Jung
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy
~good sayings about Dreams by Bette Davis
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
~common quotes by Albert Einstein
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
~motivational quotes about Gratitude sayings by Author Unknown
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~common sayings by Confucius
I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things.
~common sayings by Dorothy Parker
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~good sayings about Goals by Eleanor Roosevelt
As the gardener prunes the tree to draw the sap into one or two branches, so must we concentrate on one or two to avoid scattering our talents.
~common quotes by
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
~motivational quotes about Money sayings by H.L. Mencken
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust
~common sayings by Charles Krauthammer
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