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Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
~sayings on Hypocrisy by Montaigne, Essays, 1588

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
~quotations on Conformity by Aesop, The Man and His Two Wives, Fables

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
~inspirational quote by Edgar A. Shoaff

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
~saying about inspirational by Phillips Brooks

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied…but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
~quote about Poverty by John Berger

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
~quotes on Failure by Robert Schuller

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You’re not fully mature unless you’re prepared for the unexpected.
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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.
~sayings on Sports by Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch, 1992

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
~quotations on Chakras by Alfred Adler

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
~inspirational quote by Ambrose Bierce

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply…
~saying about inspirational by Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now
~quote about Death by Kahlil Gibran

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One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.
~motivational quotes education by Robert Benchley

Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine.
~saying about education by Jim Murray

To become financially independent, pitch your goal of living a notch below your income. And never spend any money before you have it. Well arranged finances are a sure sign of well arranged mind.
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
~quotes on Virtue by Robert S. Lynd

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
~sayings on Society by Mignon McLaughlin

Those people who tell me that I’m going to hell while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we’re going to separate destinations.
~quotations on Religion by Martin Terman

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Put your future in good hands – your own.
~quotations on Confidence by Author Unknown

I’m not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I’m not dumb. I also know I’m not blonde.
~motivational quotes education by Dolly Parton

Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
~saying about education by Ellen Glasgow

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~quote about Curiosity by Ralph W. Sockman

If you do a lot of things to build business, you’ll build business. They don’t have to be done perfectly to work, although the better you do them, the better they’ll work. But the main point is that you have to do them — a lot
~quotes on Business by Joe Girard

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
~sayings on Equality Difference by Italian Proverb

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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
~quotations on Nature by Thomas Jefferson

After all, what is your host’s purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi
~motivational quotes education by P.J. O’Rourke

One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens.
~saying about education by Pete Alfano

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
~quote about Worry by Dean Smith

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
~quotes on Beauty by Author Unknown

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
~sayings on Patriotism by George William Curtis

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Most people will be about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
~quotations on Family by Ogden Nash

The cure for capitalism’s failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
~motivational quotes education by Robert L. Heilbroner

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.
~saying about education by Henry David Thoreau

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners – your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards – who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
~quote about Vices by Thornton Wilder

[T]he bicycle will accomplish more for women’s sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged.
~quotes on Bicycling by Author Unknown, from Demerarest’s Family Magazine, 1895

Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies.
~sayings on Faith by Mahatma Gandhi

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One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
~quotes on Weeds by John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881

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Some may think that life is laughing at us! Well we’ll see who will have the last laugh!
~sayings on Living by Siro

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideasIf your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats
~quotations on New Job Congrats by Howard Aiken

‘Will’ is what creates the energy and courage to create. ‘Want,’ by itself, just isn’t enough.
~motivational life quote by Nisandeh Neta

May you get what you wish for
~saying about life by Old Chinese Curse

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.
~quote about Prejudice by From a Winston advertisement

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar – I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.
~quotes on Sex by Bob Hope

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
~saying about proverb by James Michener

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Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
~quote about Proverbs by Aesop

Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.
~quotes on Caffeine by Bob Irwin

Of all the things we wear, a smile and good humor are most important. Without them, we are not properly dressed.
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The more laws the more offenders.
~quotations on Justice by Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts.
~famous proverb saying by Abel Stevens

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
~saying about proverb by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
~saying about proverb by Henry L. Stimson

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For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
~quote about Dreams by Samuel Lover, Rory O’ More

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
~quotes on Mothers by Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn’t grow up can be vice president.
~sayings on Celebrity by Johnny Carson

All television is children’s television.
~quotations on Television by Richard P. Adler

If you got rid of all your problems, you’d have a bigger one – boredom.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
~saying about proverb by Jimmy Carter

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Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~quotations on Autumn by Elizabeth Lawrence

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You can see a lot by just looking.
~inspirational motivational quotation by Yogi Berra

The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.
~saying about love by Colette

Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist.
~quote about Scrapbooking by Author Unknown

I talk to him when I’m lonesome like; and I’m sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.
~quotes on Clothing by W. Dayton Wedgefarth

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
~sayings on Cats by Colette

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.
~quotations on Age by Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
~inspirational motivational quotation by Sicilian Proverb