My Famous Quotations Weblog

Famous Quotations

graniomarker — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:23:17 +0000

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next
~sayings about words of encouragement by Mignon McLaughlin

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
~quotes about Teenagers by Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
~inspirational words of encouragement by W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn’t, it’s that girls should stick to girls’ sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
~saying on Sports by Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Forgiveness Quotations

graniomarker — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:20:59 +0000

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
~life by William Arthur Ward

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked
~sayings about life by Author Unknown

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
~quotes about Golf by Lee Trevino

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.
~inspirational life quote by Garrison Keillor

inspirational life Quotations

graniomarker — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:18:45 +0000

Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.
~inspirational life quote by X-Files

Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.
~life by Gwyn Thomas

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
~sayings about life by Joseph Heller

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are
~quotes about Graduation by e.e. cummings

Teaching Quotations

graniomarker — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:57:17 +0000

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers. [Illusions] - Richard David Bach

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink. - Benjamin Franklin

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. - Anatole France

The object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher. - Elbert Green Hubbard

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. - Simone Weil

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller

Teaching is the highest form of understanding. - Aristotle

Thinking Quotations

graniomarker — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:56:18 +0000

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. - Pierre de Coubertin

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking. - Joan Rivers

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. - Virginia Woolf

The trick is to stop thinking it as your money. Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. - Albert Einstein

Isn’t sanity really just a one trick pony anyway? I mean all of you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you’re good and crazy, oooh oooh oooh, the sky is the limit! - Ben Edlund

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. - Confucius

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself. - Plato

O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away. - William Butler Yeats

Famous adventure Quotations

graniomarker — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:07:33 +0000

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
~famous sayings on Risk by André Gide

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~motivational quotations on Science by Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954

Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags,Fit company for mad adventurers.
~wise adventure sayings by Philip Freneau

People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.
~saying by James L. Framo, Explorations in Marital & Family Therapy

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world
~inspirational quote on Curiosity by Pierre Mac ORLAN

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
~good quotes about War of Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Great baby quotations

graniomarker — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:06:24 +0000

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
~famous sayings on Grandparents by Joy Hargrove

If you want to look like the people next door, you’re probably smothering yourself and your dreams.
~motivational quotations on Conformity by Clive Barker

Where did you come from, baby dear?Out of the Everywhere and into here.
~wise baby sayings by George MacDonald

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
~saying by G.K. Chesterton

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
~inspirational quote on Teenagers by Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988

Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
~good quotes about Parenting of Lotte Bailyn

Quotations on anger

graniomarker — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:04:23 +0000

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change…. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
~wise anger sayings by Erica Jong

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~saying by Confucius

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
~inspirational quote on Kisses by Author Unknown

Don’t think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It’s really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.
~good quotes about Medical of Author Unknown

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
~famous sayings on Pregnancy by Lawrence Housman

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
~motivational quotations on Helping by Author Unknown

Nice Wedding Quotations

graniomarker — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:29:02 +0000

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

My Greatest wish for the two of you is that through the years your love for each other will so deepen and grow, that years from now you will look back on this day, your wedding day, as the day you loved each other the least.

Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.

Here’s to the groom, a man who keeps his head though he loses his heart.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Here’s to these beautiful bridesmaids.

Famous One Liner Quotations

graniomarker — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:50:58 +0000

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”

“A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.”

“I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance: waiting for the bathroom.”

“She said she was approaching 40 and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.”

“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.”

“When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.”

“Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.”