My random clever quotes Weblog

scrapbook inspirational saying

denisewixer — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:20:39 +0000

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
~scrapbook inspirational saying by W.C. Fields

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn’t, He is behaving like God.
~saying about scrapbook by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
~quote about Perfection by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano

Grandchildren don’t stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
~quotes on Grandparents by Gene Perret

Better than low taxes for mending hard times is the habit of spending less than we earn. Wealth comes oftener from decreasing our wants than from increasing our income. A real sign of growing sense is learning to reduce expenses.
~sayings on Wealth by

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
~quotations on Animal Rights by Rue McClanahan

quotes on Self-Discovery

denisewixer — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:19:25 +0000

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
~quotes on Self-Discovery by Thomas Mann

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
~sayings on Carpe Diem by George Santayana, War Shrines, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
~quotations on Poverty by Eva Perón

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
~funny old saying by Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 13 February 1959

Blondes hav more fun but brunettes can read
~saying about old by

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
~quote about Worry by Edward Everett Hale

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
~quotes on Art by John Anthony Ciardi

sayings on Dreams

denisewixer — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:18:32 +0000

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
~sayings on Dreams by Napoleon Hill

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
~quotations on Motivation by Mary Manin Morrissey author

Love one another and you will be happyIt’s as simple and as difficult as that
~motivational sports quotes by Michael Leunig

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
~saying about sports by G.K. Chesterton

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
~quote about Trees by John Muir

There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used…. Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
~quotes on Violence by Gil Bailie

inspirational spiritual quotes

denisewixer — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:16:56 +0000

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.
~inspirational spiritual quotes by Haim Ginot

You can be sincere and still be stupid.
~saying about spiritual by Charles F. Kettering

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
~quote about Food by Voltaire

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
~quotes on Famous Saying by Groucho Marx

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
~sayings on Art by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
~quotations on Health by Lord Chesterfield

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear.
~inspirational spiritual quotes by Author Unknown

quotes about Experience. by Bernard Malamud

denisewixer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:56:27 +0000

We have two lives – the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
~quotes about Experience. by Bernard Malamud, The Natural

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
~inspirational music quote by Author Unknown

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.
~saying on Taxes by Alfred E. Neuman

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
~inspirational music quote by John Vance Cheney

To lead by example is difficult when you’re a follower of fear.
~music by T.A. Sachs

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
~sayings about music by Author Unknown

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
~quotes about Literature by E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

quotes about America by Elmer Davis

denisewixer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:54:38 +0000

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you
~sayings about money by Bennett Cerf

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~quotes about America by Elmer Davis

Instead of counting your days, make your days count.
~famous money quotes by Author Unknown

Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.
~saying on Walking by Author Unknown

Child rearing myth #1: Labor ends when the baby is born
~famous money quotes by Unknown

To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
~money by C.G. Jung

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others
~sayings about money by Francois Mauriac

sayings about work by Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

denisewixer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:53:24 +0000

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~work by Albert Schweitzer

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
~sayings about work by Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
~quotes about Learning by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Love is not singular except in syllable
~funny work quotes by Marvin Taylor

No matter how far in or out of the closet you are, you still have a next step.
~saying on Homosexuality by Author Unknown

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegianceIt is also owed to justice and to humanityPatriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong
~funny work quotes by James Bryce

The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income
~work by George Foreman

sayings about life by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

denisewixer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:36:47 +0000

A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.
~quotes about Mothers by Author Unknown

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
~motivational life quotes by Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media’s Manipulation of

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
~saying on History by Peter Berger

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
~motivational life quotes by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

We are spirits clad in veils.
~life by Christopher P. Cranch

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
~sayings about life by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

If you just set people in motion they’ll heal themselves.
~quotes about Psychology by Gabrielle Roth

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
~motivational life quotes by Jack Tatum

Plenty of crying quotes & quotations

denisewixer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:17:51 +0000

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
~inspirational sayings about Crying quotes by Ovid

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
~crying quotes by Isak Dinesen

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
~famous quotes about Crying by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
~crying sayings by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
~crying quotes by Albert Smith

For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye.
~inspirational sayings about Libraries quotes by Curse Against Book Stealers, Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona

honesty quotes or sayings & quotations

denisewixer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:17:00 +0000

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.
~honesty quotes by Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
~famous quotes about Honesty by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?
~honesty sayings by Patrick Sky

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
~honesty quotes or sayings by Jerome K. Jerome

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~inspirational sayings about Honesty quotes by Mark Twain

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~honesty quotes by No�l Coward, Blithe Spirit