Wednesday, May 6, 2009

MeaningFul Nice SaYings

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
~Author : Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider Northern Exposure Cicely 1992 Famous Quotes

He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
~Author : Thomas Fuller Gnomologia 1732 Inspirational Sayings

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
~Author : Johnson Nice Quotes

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
~Author : John Milton Great Sayings

Suffering . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
~Author : Anatole France Meaningful Sayings

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
~Author : Vaclav Havel Wise Quotes

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
~Author : Mark Twain Speech in New York Nov 20 1900 Motivational Sayings

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