Classic Quotes by Dr. Lawrence J. Peter (1919-1990) US pop psychologist, writer
**A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. ** **------------------------ ** **A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. ** **------------------------ ** **A man convinced against his will is not convinced. ** **------------------------ ** **A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. ** **------------------------ ** **A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. ** **------------------------ ** **Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ** **------------------------ ** **America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. ** **------------------------ ** **America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. ** **------------------------ ** **An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ** **------------------------ ** **An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. **
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*Classic Quotes by Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexcographer
* **I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. ** **------------------------ ** **A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. ** **------------------------ ** **A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ** **------------------------ ** **A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. ** **------------------------ ** **A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. ** **------------------------ ** **A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ** **------------------------ ** **A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ** **------------------------ ** **A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. ** **------------------------ ** **A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. **
*Classic Quotes by Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English scientist *
**The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. ** **------------------------ ** **The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. ** **------------------------ ** **The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. ** **------------------------ ** **Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity) ** **------------------------ **
***Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
*Classic Quotes by Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950) US suffragist *
**The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling. **
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**Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. **
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**A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. **
Raju’s Roses Club
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often
Smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks
Let us forgive and forget each others mistakes for the love of our Lord and respect each other, because when we point one finger at others our 4 fingers are pointing at ourselves.
Stop Being on each others’ case people. Ruthless name calling and stealth attack on each others shall be removed and will be expected not to be repeated lest it may lead to something undesirable.
Classic Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) English writer
***A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. ***
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***A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. ***
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***He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. ***
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***How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! ***
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***I’ll not listen to reason… reason always means what someone else has got to say. ***
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***My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. ***
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**People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. **
Classic Quotes by Faith Baldwin (1893-1978) US writer
**Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. ** **------------------------ ** **Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. ** **------------------------ ** **Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ** **------------------------ ** **You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. ** **------------------------ ** **Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. ** **------------------------ ** **One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. **
Classic Quotes by Truman Capote (1924-1984) US writer
**A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. ** **------------------------ ** **Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian tones an enameled song that coolly celebrates her chewing-gum enthusiasms. ** **------------------------ ** **All literature is gossip. ** **------------------------ ** **Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. ** **------------------------ ** **Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ** **------------------------ ** **Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. ** **------------------------ ** **Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. ** **------------------------ ** **Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. ** **------------------------ **
***Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."
Classic Quotes by Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950) US suffragist
**The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling. ** **------------------------ ** **Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. ** **------------------------ ** **A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. **
Raju’s Roses Club Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often
Smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks
i know i had put up some quotes here. dont know what happened to them.