funny drinking sayings & quotes

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from

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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
~Author : John Lancaster Spalding Wise Quotes

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
~Author : Desiderius Erasmus Motivational Sayings

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
~Author : George Orwell Famous Quotes

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
~Author : Danish proverb Inspirational Sayings

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
~Author : Author Unknown Nice Quotes

To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
~Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Great Sayings

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves

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Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise Quotes

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Motivational Sayings

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
~Author : Warren Bennis Famous Quotes

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~Author : Harriet Inspirational Sayings

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
~Author : Casey Stengel Nice Quotes

The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
~Author : Laertius Diogenes Great Sayings

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
~Author : Robert Orben Famous Quotes

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
~Author : Ayn Rand Inspirational Sayings

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
~Author : James Ramsey Nice Quotes

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
~Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Great Sayings

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
~Author : Chuck The World According to Chuck weblog October 14 2003 Meaningful Sayings

Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
~Author : Pablo Picasso Wise Quotes

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
~Author : Robin Norwood Motivational Sayings

Saki Meaningful Sayings

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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
~Author : Saki Meaningful Sayings

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
~Author : Pericles from Plutarch Lives Wise Quotes

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
~Author : Richard M DeVos Motivational Sayings

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
~Author : William A Foster Famous Quotes

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
~Author : B C Forbes Inspirational Sayings

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Nice Quotes

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
~Author : A A Milne Great Sayings

Judy Garland Nice Quotes

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
~Author : Judy Garland Nice Quotes

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.
~Author : Albert Schweitzer Great Sayings

Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.
~Author : R M Grenon Meaningful Sayings

If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it.
~Author : Soren Kierkegaard EitherOr Wise Quotes

What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more.
~Author : Samuel Butler Motivational Sayings

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute...that gives meaning to our lives.
~Author : Anthony Robbins Famous Quotes

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
~Author : Elisabeth KublerRoss Inspirational Sayings

Henry Miller Famous Quotes

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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
~Author : Henry Miller Famous Quotes

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
~Author : James Baldwin Inspirational Sayings

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
~Author : Margaret Mitchell Nice Quotes

The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.
~Author : Dugald Stewart Great Sayings

Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
~Author : WL George Meaningful Sayings

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Wise Quotes

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
~Author : John Locke Motivational Sayings

When kings the sword of justice first lay down;
They art no kings, though they posess the crown;
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
~Author : Daniel Defoe Famous Quotes

Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth

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People are more easily led than driven.
~Author : David Harold Fink Inspirational Sayings

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
~Author : Phillips Brooks Nice Quotes

Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
~Author : Lord Samuel Romanes Lecture 1947 Great Sayings

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
~Author : WC Fields Meaningful Sayings

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Wise Quotes

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Motivational Sayings

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Famous Quotes

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
~Author : Sinclair Lewis Inspirational Sayings

The only obligation which I have a right to assume,

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Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Inspirational Sayings

I worship the quicksand he walks in.
~Author : Art Buchwald Nice Quotes

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Sayings

The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobience Meaningful Sayings

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
~Author : Edward P Tryon Wise Quotes

The world is too much with us late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon
~Author : William Wordsworth Motivational Sayings

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

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The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
~Author : Rod Serling Famous Quotes

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
~Author : Sir Theodore Martin Inspirational Sayings

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience
~Author : Thomas John Watson Sr Nice Quotes

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
~Author : Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas Great Sayings

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
~Author : George Washington Carver Meaningful Sayings

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.
~Author : Kofi Annan In his In Larger Freedom report to the United Nations General Assembly Wise Quotes

With great power comes great responsibility.

2008-10-02T06:26:00.003-07:00

Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
~Author : P Barnum Meaningful Sayings

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
~Author : O A Battista Wise Quotes

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
~Author : Voltaire Motivational Sayings

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Famous Quotes

With great power comes great responsibility.
~Author : Stan Lee SpiderMan comic Inspirational Sayings

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
~Author : Aubrey Eben Nice Quotes

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
~Author : Aaron Levenstein Great Sayings

Life is too short to be sensible.

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We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese--or at least manage like them.
~Author : John F Welch Great Sayings

Their silence is sufficient praise.
~Author : Terence Meaningful Sayings

Life is too short to be sensible.
~Author : Unknown Wise Quotes

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
~Author : Muhammad Ali Playboy Nov 1975 Motivational Sayings

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
~Author : E H Chapin Famous Quotes

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
~Author : John Brown Inspirational Sayings

The report of my death was an exaggeration.
~Author : Mark Twain New York Journal June 2 1897 Nice Quotes

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
~Author : Eric Hoffer The Passionate State of Mind 1954 Great Sayings

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
~Author : Assyrian Proverb Famous Quotes

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
~Author : Robert J Collier Inspirational Sayings

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
~Author : C E Montague Nice Quotes

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists Great Sayings

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
~Author : Sir James MacKintosh Meaningful Sayings

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
~Author : Chuangtzu Wise Quotes

What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
~Author : Searamouche Motivational Sayings

The gods help them that help themselves.
~Author : Aesop Hercules and the Wagoner Famous Quotes

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
~Author : Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Inspirational Sayings

The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense.

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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
~Author : Laurence J Peter Nice Quotes

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Sayings

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
~Author : Robert F Kennedy Meaningful Sayings

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
~Author : Sam Brown Washington Post 1977 Wise Quotes

The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out...
~Author : Anon Motivational Sayings

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
~Author : William McFee Famous Quotes

Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something.
~Author : Saul Bellow Inspirational Sayings

The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense.
~Author : Tom Clancy Nice Quotes

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
~Author : Oscar Levant Great Sayings

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
~Author : Edith Sodergran Meaningful Sayings

If you want to make good use of your time, you?ve got to know what?s most important and then give it all you?ve got.
~Author : Lee Iacocca Wise Quotes

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
~Author : Warren Bennis Motivational Sayings

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.
~Author : Bill Vaughan Famous Quotes

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
~Author : James Thurber Famous Quotes

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
~Author : Gustave Flaubert Inspirational Sayings

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.
~Author : Cynthia Wang Nice Quotes

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
~Author : Henry Miller Great Sayings

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
~Author : Roosevelt Eleanor Meaningful Sayings

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
~Author : Akhenaton Wise Quotes

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~Author : Duffy Daugherty Motivational Sayings

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
~Author : Charles Sanders Pierce Famous Quotes

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.
~Author : Sam Levenson Inspirational Sayings

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
~Author : Norman Cousins Great Sayings

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
~Author : Erma Bombeck Meaningful Sayings

An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
~Author : Terry Pratchett Hogfather Wise Quotes

I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Motivational Sayings

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Famous Quotes

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Inspirational Sayings

Live simply that others may simply live.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Nice Quotes

'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

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Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
~Author : Evelyn Waugh Work Suspended 1943 Nice Quotes

'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
~Author : Sarah Orne Jewett Great Sayings

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
~Author : Kurt Vonnegut Jr Meaningful Sayings

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~Author : Thomas Alva Edison Wise Quotes

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
~Author : Maurice Chevalier Motivational Sayings

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
~Author : Zora Neale Hurston Famous Quotes

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
~Author : Walt Kelly Inspirational Sayings

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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Nothing endures but change.
~Author : Heraclitus from Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers Famous Quotes

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...
~Author : Chief Seattle Inspirational Sayings

Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
~Author : George Will Nice Quotes

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Great Sayings

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw St Joan Meaningful Sayings

Curiosity is the key to creativity.
~Author : Akio Morita Wise Quotes

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
~Author : Seneca Motivational Sayings

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~Author : Dave Tyson Gentry Famous Quotes

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
~Author : Thomas Troward Inspirational Sayings