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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
~old time sayings by Thomas Carlyle
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
~inspirational sayings about Summer quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
~old time quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse
One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore... and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
~famous quotes about Bores by John Updike, Assorted Prose
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
~old time sayings by Author Unknown
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
~old time sayings by George Moore
Life's a waste of time, time's a waste of life so let's all get wasted and have the time of our life.
~inspirational sayings about Alcohol quotes by Author Unknown
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
~old time quotes by Alan Kay
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
~famous quotes about Government by Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~old time sayings by Emily Dickinson
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden
~old time sayings by Attributed to Claudia Ghandi
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
~inspirational sayings about Carpe Diem quotes by George M. Adams
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
~old time quotes by David Mamet
It takes a lot of caution, work and guts to make a fortune, and ten times as much to hang on to it.
~famous quotes about Wealth by
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
~old time sayings by Josh Billings
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
~old time sayings by Sam Levenson
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
~good sayings about Censorship by Claude-Adrien Helvétius
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
~old time quotes by Joseph Conrad
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~motivational quotes about Poverty sayings by Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti
Be God or let God.
~old time sayings by Author Unknown
But I was not, to use the theological phrase, receptive. The great obstacle to the influx of grace was my own perfect happiness, and it is well known that God takes no thought for the happy, any more than He does for birds and puppies, perhaps realizing they have no need of Him and mercifully letting them alone.
~old time sayings by John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, 1970
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
~good sayings about Women by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
~old time quotes by Jon Winokur
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
~motivational quotes about Men sayings by Golda Meir
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
~old time sayings by Oscar Levant
There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
~old time sayings by Florynce Kennedy
The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
~good sayings about Idleness by Author Unknown
O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it.
~old time quotes by Mark Twain, The War Prayer
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
~motivational quotes about Writing sayings by Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.
~old time sayings by Bernard M. Baruch
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
~old time sayings by Swami X
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
~good sayings about Chakras by Alfred Adler
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
~old time quotes by David Sarnoff
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
~motivational quotes about Marriage sayings by A.P. Herbert
One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.
~old time sayings by Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National Laboratory, 1969
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