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   I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time!
 ~quotes about Reality by Author Unknown

   Never let the little head do the thinking for the big head.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Author unknown, advice to teenage boys, quoted in Friendly Advice compiled by Jon Winokur

   Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
 ~saying on Libraries by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Books, Society and Solitude

   Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say
 ~origin of famous sayings by Unknown

   Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
 ~origin of by Henry David Thoreau, Chesuncook, The Maine Woods, 1848

   There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
 ~sayings about origin of by G.K. Chesterton

   Beware the fury of a patient man.
 ~quotes about Patience by John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680

   The world is your school.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Martin H. Fischer

   One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter
 ~saying on Friends by Francoise Sagan

   I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden, 1909

   There is no god higher than truth.
 ~origin of by Mahatma Gandhi

   Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
 ~sayings about origin of by Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis

   Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life
 ~quotes about Friends by James Francis Byrnes

   The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder
 ~origin of famous sayings by Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929

   When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
 ~saying on Gratitude by Chinese Proverb

   Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Paul Rodriguez

   Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused - as remarkable you might say - as most women.
 ~origin of by Jane Howard

   The plague of government is senile delinquency.
 ~sayings about origin of by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
 ~quotes about Humankind by Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

   The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Ohiyesa of the Santee Sioux (Charles Alexander Eastman)

   My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
 ~saying on Baseball by Mickey Mantle

   Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Paul Pearshall

   The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
 ~origin of by Eric Sevareid, The Press and the People, television program, 1959

   We’ll never do much good in the world as long as we wonder whether it will bring us any credit.
 ~sayings about origin of by

   The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
 ~quotes about Conformity by John Stuart Mill

   A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Terri Guillemets

   We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
 ~saying on Action by Harold Nicolson

   Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Ayn Rand

   Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
 ~origin of by Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820

   There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
 ~sayings about origin of by J.B. Priestly

   Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
 ~quotes about Grandparents by Author Unknown

   But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Virginia Woolf

   I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
 ~saying on Night by Vincent Van Gogh

   Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

   You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
 ~origin of by H.G. Wells

   Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
 ~sayings about origin of by Red Buttons

   When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
 ~quotes about Homosexuality by Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988 (Thank you, Marlene.)

   If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Alan King

   A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.
 ~saying on Money by Harry Lauder

   When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight
 ~origin of famous sayings by Kahlil Gibran

   Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
 ~origin of by Henry H. Tweedy

   Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.
 ~sayings about origin of by Jim Davis

   Hunger makes a thief of any man.
 ~quotes about Poverty by Pearl S. Buck

   A father is always making his baby into a little womanAnd when she is a woman he turns her back again
 ~origin of famous sayings by Enid Bagnold

   Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
 ~saying on Cities by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

   The hero dead cannot expire:, The dead still play their part.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Charles Sangster

   Where we love is home,Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
 ~origin of by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven

   Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
 ~sayings about origin of by Lynda Barry

   A man in love is incomplete until he is marriedThen he's finished
 ~quotes about Weddings by Zsa Zsa Gabor

   Having a bottom is living with the enemyNot only do they spend their lives slowly inflating, they flirt with men while we're looking the other way
 ~origin of famous sayings by Coupling, "Her Best Friend's Bottom," original airdate 17 September 2001, written by Steven Moffat,

   I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
 ~saying on Feminism by Madonna Ciccone

   Let freedom never perish in your hands
 ~origin of famous sayings by Joseph Addison

   The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
 ~origin of by Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault), The Red Lily, 1894

   Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
 ~sayings about origin of by George Bernard Shaw

   Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
 ~quotes about Children by Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688

   The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Gloria Leonard

   One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
 ~saying on Integrity by German Proverb

   If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
 ~origin of famous sayings by Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

   If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.
 ~origin of by k.d. lang


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