Archive for February, 2009
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- Albert Einstein ( German ) 14 March 1879–18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time. ~ Wikipedia
- Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
- Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow — perhaps it all will.
- I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
- I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
- I can’t believe that God plays dice with the universe.
- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
- It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
- It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
- God always takes the simplest way.
- The environment is everything that isn’t me.
- The value of a man should be in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
- To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
- When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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- A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.~ Thomas Ybarra
- A man who always wears his best kimono has no Sunday clothes.~ Japanese Proverb
- A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.~ Traditional Proverb
- Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.~ Benjamin Franklin
- He who is not drunk on a Sunday is not worth a greeting on Monday.~ Albanian Proverb
- He that would have a beautiful wife should choose her on a Sunday.~ Danish Proverb
- I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.~ Jonathan Swift
- I’m not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I’m going to hell? ~ The Simpsons
- Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~ Ed Howe
- Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.~ Joseph Addison
- The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human on Sunday.~ Samuel Butler
- The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. ~ Jean Rhys
- The man of many trades begs his bread on Sunday.~ Romanian Proverb
- Tell a lie on Saturday and you will be ashamed on Sunday.~ Turkish Proverb
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- A bad workman always blames his tools.~ Traditional Proverb
- Adam must have an Eve to blame for his faults.~ Italian Proverb
- An ambassador bears no blame ~ Chinese Proverb
- Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Blame is a lazy man’s wages.~ Danish Proverb
- Blame is safer than praise.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank Him for not giving it wings.~ Ethiopian Proverb
- Do not blame the sun for the darkness of the night.~ Georgian Proverb
- Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.~ Bernard M. Baruch
- Everyone blames his memory, but never his judgment.~ French Proverb
- Everything I do you blame on me.~ Blame Quotes
- He who flatters me is my enemy, who blames me is my teacher.~ Chinese Proverb
- He who trips and falls should not blame his foot.~ Chinese Proverb
- If a son is uneducated, his father is to blame.~ Chinese Proverb
- If a wife is unfaithful then the husband is partly to blame.~ Arabian Proverb
- If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea.~ Greek Proverb
- If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.~ Blame Quotes
- If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- I praise loudly, I blame softly.~ Catherine II of Russia
- Luck’s always to blame.~ Jean De La Fontaine
- Man sins… then blames it on the devil.~ Afghan Proverb
- Neither blame or praise yourself.~ Traditional Proverb
- No one is a failure until they blame somebody else.~ Charles “Tremendous” Jones
- One does harm, and another bears the blame.~ English Proverb
- People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame — and only one — themselves.~ Robert Collier
- People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.~ Author Unknown
- Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.~ Erica Jong
- The absent are always to blame.~ Danish Proverb
- The rich man makes mistakes and the poor men get the blame.~ Romanian Proverb
- The search for someone to blame is always successful.~ Robert Half
- Those who cant dance blame it on the music.~ Jamaican Proverb
- To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.~ Plutarch
- You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.~ Henry David Thoreau
- What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes! ~ Sophocles
- Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.~ Louis XIV
- When we blame, we give away our power.~ Greg Anderson
- When you blame others, you give up your power to change.~ Dr. Robert Anthony
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- Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- Get me some French tailor To new-create you.~ Philip Massinger
- Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.~ Nicephorus
- I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.~ Oliver Goldsmith
- I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.~ V. Charles
- One Englishman can beat three Frenchmen.~ Italian Proverb
- Speaking French is no proof of intelligence.~ Creole Proverb
- The French complain of everything, and always.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.~ Jean Jacque Rousseau
- The Frenchman sings well, when his throat is moistened. ~ Portuguese Proverb
- The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.~ French Proverb
- The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.~ Francis Bacon
- The Germans in the stable, the Czech in the kitchen and the French in bed.~ Czech Proverb
- The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.~ George Herbert
- The Italians cry, the Germans bawl, and the French sing. ~ French Proverb
- There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.~ J. Finod De
- The Italian seems wise, and is wise; the Spaniard seems wise, and is a fool; the French seems a fool, and is wise; and the English seems a fool and is a fool. ~ Common Proverb
- To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse–German.~ Jason Chamberlain
- Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge. ~ French Proverb
- When the Frenchman sleeps the devil rocks him. ~ French Proverb
- We French found it and called it joie de vivre — the joy of living.~ Rene Repound
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- An empty barrel makes a lot of noise.~ Yiddish Proverb
- A given excuse that was not asked for implies guilt. Clapping with only the right hand will not make a noise.~ Singaporean Proverb
- Debts are like children; the smaller they are the more noise they make.~ Spanish Proverb
- Empty barrels and insignificant people always make the most noise.~ Greek Proverb
- Empty houses are full of noises.~ Basque Proverb
- He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.~ William Dean Howells
- I would take a bomb, but I can’t stand the noise.~ Joe E. Lewis
- One coin in the money-box makes more noise than when it is full.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- Noise and hunting don’t go together.~ African Proverb
- Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.~ Mark Twain
- Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.~ Sun Tzu
- Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- The bullet that doesn’t hit anything still makes a noise.~ Egyptian Proverb
- The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.~ Sir Thomas Beecham
- Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.~ English Proverb
- True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.~ Edward F. Halifax
- What grows makes no noise.~ German Proverb
- Where the river is deepest it makes the least noise.~ Spanish Proverb
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