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Plenty of money quotes & quotations

pearljonks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:32:43 +0000

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.
~inspirational sayings about Money quotes by M.W. Harrison

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~money quotes by P.J. O’Rourke

If the nation’s economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions.
~famous quotes about Money by Arthur H. Motley

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
~money sayings by Adam Smith

marriage sayings & quotations

pearljonks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:31:26 +0000

It’s easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years?
~marriage sayings by Author Unknown

The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
~marriage sayings by Author Unknown

I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?
~inspirational sayings about Marriage quotes by Author Unknown

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
~marriage quotes by H.L. Mencken

gratitude quotes & quotations

pearljonks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:28:39 +0000

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
~gratitude sayings by Benjamin Disraeli

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
~gratitude quotes by Estonian Proverb

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
~inspirational sayings about Gratitude quotes by Joseph Addison

If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
~gratitude quotes by John Dryden

journalism sayings & quotations

pearljonks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:27:12 +0000

Get your facts first, and then you can distort ‘em as much as you please.
~journalism sayings by Mark Twain

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
~inspirational sayings about Media Journalism quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Harmony seldom makes a headline.
~journalism quotes by Silas Bent

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.
~famous quotes about Media Journalism by Earl Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968

We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.
~journalism sayings by The Houghton Line, November 1965

Quotes On Business - Employment Sayings

pearljonks — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:31:58 +0000

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
John G. Pollard

Quotes On Knowledge - Wisdom Sayings

pearljonks — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:30:27 +0000

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right
Thomas Paine - Common Sense

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Michael Garrett Marino

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!
William Wordsworth

A wise man’s question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabriel

Quotes On Inspiration - Motivation Sayings

pearljonks — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:28:58 +0000

A life without cause is a life without effect.
Barbarella

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. Munro ‘Saki’ (1870-1916)

A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinwitz

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

Quotes On Friends - Friendship Sayings

pearljonks — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:27:20 +0000

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
Doug Larson

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.
Len Wein

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.
Anonymous

Quotes On Education - Experience Sayings

pearljonks — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:25:24 +0000

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Anonymous

A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
Anonymous

A progeny of learning.
R. B. Sheridan

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao-Tzu (570?-490? B.C.)

A student by definition doesn’t know what he or she doesn’t know.
Michael Gorman

Famous sayings and quotes on life

pearljonks — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:59:53 +0000

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
~good quotes about Curmudgeons of Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Ah! never shall the land forget, How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
~famous sayings on Memorial Day by William Cullen Bryant

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
~motivational quotations on Politics by Cissy Farenthold

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
~wise life sayings by Charles Schulz

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
~saying by Jean Paul Richter