Nice One Liners - Phrases

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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
~Author : HenriFr d ric Amiel 1856 Famous Quotes
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Sayings

Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.
~Author : Anon Nice Quotes

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
~Author : Gypsy Smith Great Sayings

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
~Author : Maxim Gorky Meaningful Sayings

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Wise Quotes

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
~Author : Cicero Motivational Sayings

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?
~Author : Mark Twain Famous Quotes

They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one.
~Author : Barbara Hall Inspirational Sayings

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
~Author : Jean Genet Famous Quotes

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inspirational Sayings

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
~Author : Euripides Nice Quotes

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
~Author : Eric Sevareid Great Sayings

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
~Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Meaningful Sayings

To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone.
~Author : David Joseph Schwartz Wise Quotes

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
~Author : Gene Oliver Motivational Sayings

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
~Author : Terry Pratchett Equal Rites Famous Quotes

The giving of love is an education in itself.
~Author : Roosevelt Eleanor Inspirational Sayings

A Collection of One Liners

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There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angles.
~Author : Neil Simon in Playboy Feb 1979 Famous Quotes

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
~Author : Adrienne Rich Inspirational Sayings

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
~Author : EV Lucas Nice Quotes

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
~Author : Achilles Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 955 Great Sayings

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
~Author : Alford Meaningful Sayings

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
~Author : Chinese proverb Wise Quotes

Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now
~Author : Arnot L Sheppard Jr Motivational Sayings

People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
~Author : James F Hind Famous Quotes

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
~Author : Fred Rogers Inspirational Sayings

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
~Author : Victor Hugo Famous Quotes

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
~Author : Juvenal Satires Inspirational Sayings

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.
~Author : Anonymous Nice Quotes

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid)
~Author : Virgil Great Sayings

A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
~Author : Herbert Spencer Meaningful Sayings

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
~Author : Tom Lehrer Wise Quotes

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
~Author : Sir Thomas More Utopia Book 1 Motivational Sayings

Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
~Author : Anon Famous Quotes

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
~Author : Auguste Renoir Inspirational Sayings