Nice Quotes

July 9, 2009

Daily ask yourself: How can I do this task quicker, cheaper, better, or more easily?
~quote about Career by

How many things are there which I do not want.
~quotes on Simplicity by Socrates

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.
~sayings on Humor by Tommy Cooper

[T]his is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something.
~quotations on Hair by From the television show Beverly Hills 90210

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
~motivational quotes for athletes by John Jay Chapman

[A] genuine tattoo…. tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don’t tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they’re just there for decoration, then they’re not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they’re not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there’s no mistakes.
~saying about athletes by Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000

Friends Quotes

July 9, 2009

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~saying about tshirt by Arnold Glasow

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
~quote about Adversity by John Aughey

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.
~quotes on Ideals by G.K. Chesterton

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
~sayings on Happiness by Buddha

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
~quotations on Fear by Andre Gide

Making the decision to have a child is momentousIt is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body
~funny t-shirt sayings by Elizabeth Stone

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either
~saying about tshirt by Mark Twain

Life Quotes

July 9, 2009

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
~funny t-shirt sayings by George Bernard Shaw

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
~saying about tshirt by Dale Carnegie

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path
~quote about Love Quotes by Agatha Christie

I felt it shelter to speak to you
~quotes on For a Friend by Emily Dickinson

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
~sayings on Baseball by George F. Will, 1990

Children have more need of models, than of critics
~quotations on Children by Joseph Joubert

The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth.
~funny t-shirt sayings by W.R. Koehler, The Koehler Method of Dog Training

Witty Quotes

July 9, 2009

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
~quotes on Living by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will
~sayings on Goodbye by Author Unknown

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
~quotations on Men by Jean Giraudoux

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm
~funny t-shirt sayings by Vince Lombardi

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
~saying about tshirt by Robert Cecil

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego – ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
~quote about Patriotism by George Meredith, Beauchamp’s Career

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
~ Arnold H. Glasgow

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”

“Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value.”

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”

“Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.”
~Dell Crossword

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

“If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.”

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
~Earl Nightingale

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
~Albert Einstein

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. ”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
~Henry David Thoreau

“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.”
~Woody Allen

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
~Vince Lombardi

“Actually, I’m an overnight success. But it took twenty years. ”

“Be self-reliant and your success is assured.”
~Anonymous

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
~Christopher Lasch

“Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.”

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
~ Mark Victor Hansen

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

“It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.”

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.”

“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
~Bob Dylan

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

“Success: willing to do what the average person is not willing to do.”

And my favorite success quote, “If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.”

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.  ~Rajneesh


Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.  ~John Erskine

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  ~Author Unknown

Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  ~Ambrose Bierce

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.  ~Golda Meir

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.
~Author : West African proverb Famous Quotes

Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless.
~Author : Hannah Arendt Inspirational Sayings

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
~Author : Euripides Nice Quotes

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
~Author : Francois de Fenelon Great Sayings

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Meaningful Sayings

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he’s gonna be disappointed anyway.
~Author : George Foreman Wise Quotes

Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
~Author : Dirk Struik A Concise History of Mathematics vol I Motivational Sayings