Sunday, March 9, 2008

10 Short Quotes about Ideas

350228749_f979eb4f17_m 1. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ~ John Steinbeck

2. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. ~ Abraham Lincoln

3. Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. ~ Carl Schurz

4. There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. ~ Emile Chartier

5. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

6. To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! ~ H. L. Mencken
7. Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. ~ Jim Hightower,

8. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ~ John Cage

9. It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ~ Anatole France

10. Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. ~ Ken Hakuta

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

7 Short Quotes about Health

1. Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside. ~ Albert Schweitzer

2. Health is not valued till sickness comes. ~ Dr. Thomas Fuller

3. Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

4. If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors. ~ Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

5. Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. ~ Quentin Crisp

6. One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. ~ Rabbi Harold Kushner

7. Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. ~ Robert Orben

10 Short Quotes about Happiness

1. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ~ Albert Schweitzer

2. The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. ~ Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

3. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. ~ Bertrand Russell

4. Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. ~ hristopher Morley

5. Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others. ~ David Assael

6. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. ~ George Bernard Shaw

7. It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ~ Kin Hubbard

8. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

9. When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. ~ Nicole Kidman

10. Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ~ Oscar Levant

10 Short Quotes about Food

1. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. ~ Adelle Davis

2. We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. ~ Adelle Davis

3. Health food makes me sick. ~ Calvin Trillin

4. My favorite animal is steak. ~ Fran Lebowitz

5. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ~ G. K. Chesterton

6. A dinner lubricates business. ~ Lord William Stowell

7. Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. ~ M. F. K. Fisher

8. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. ~ Orson Welles

9. Food is the most primitive form of comfort. ~ Sheila Graham

10. I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. ~ Totie Fields

10 Short Quotes about Friendship

1. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

2. Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

3. I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. ~ Oscar Wilde

4. Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. ~ Publilius Syrus

5. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of. ~ Randy K. Milholland,

7. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. ~ Thomas Jones

8. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Unknown

9. I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. ~ Walt Whitman

10. I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world. ~ Trey Parker and Matt Stone

5 Short Quotes about Death

1. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. ~ A. Sachs

2. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~ George Bernard Shaw

3. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ~ Joseph Stalin

4. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
5. Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. ~ William Goldman