Archive for March, 2009
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- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.~ John Adams
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion,desire.~ Aristotle
- All human activity is prompted by desire.~ Bertrand Russell
- All men by nature desire to know.~ Aristotle
- Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- A wish is a desire without an attempt.~ Farmer Digest
- Because they had a vision, a desire, and they took action.~ Thomas J. Vilord
- Boredom: the desire for desires.~ Count Leo Tolstoy
- Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.~ Muhammad Ali
- Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.~ Zig Ziglar
- Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.~ Paul Vernon Buser
- Desire creates the power.~ Raymond Holliwell
- Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.~ Marcia Wieder
- Desire is proof of the availability…~ Robert Collier
- Desire is the essence of a man.~ Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
- Desire is the key to motivation.~ Mario Andretti
- Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.~ Thomas Manton
- Desires increase as they are fulfilled.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.~ Thomas Troward
- Energy is equal to desire and purpose.~ Sheryl Adams
- Events are influenced by our very great desires.~ William James
- Every crisis offers you extra desired power.~ William Moulton Marston
- Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.~ Jean De La Fontaine
- Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.~ Jonathan Swift
- Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.~ Zig Ziglar
- Everything is perfect in the universe — even your desire to improve it.~ Wayne Dyer
- Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.~ Oscar Levant
- From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.~ Socrates
- Have the courage of your desire.~ George Robert Gissing
- He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing!~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.~ Italian Proverb
- He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.~ French Proverb
- Hunger goes in a straight line, desire turns in circles.~ Romanian Proverb
- If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.~ Simone Weil
- If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- If you desire many things, many things will seem few.~ Benjamin Franklin
- If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.~ Thomas Fuller
- If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.~ James Allen
- Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power~ Walter Lippmann
- In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.~ Ben Hecht
- I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.~ Kahlil Gibran
- It’s the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires.~ Rebecca West
- It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.~ Francis Bacon
- Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.~ William J. Durant
- Large desire is endless poverty.~ Indian Proverb
- Let him who desires peace prepare for war.~ Vegetius
- Let reason govern desire.~ Marcus T. Cicero
- Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.~ Socrates
- Limit your desires and you will improve your health.~ Spanish Proverb
- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.~ Robert Frost
- Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.~ Gaston Bachelard
- Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
- Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.~ Jonathan Edwards
- Much pleasure and little grief is every man’s desire.~ Spanish Proverb
- Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.~ Patti Smith
- Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.~ George Allen
- Opportunity makes desire.~ Dutch Proverb
- Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- Our visions begin with our desires.~ Audre Lorde
- Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire.~ James Montgomery
- Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.~ Frank Herbert
- Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.~ Ibn Gabirol
- The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.~ John Ruskin
- The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.~ The Holy Bible
- The desire to appear clever often prevents our being so.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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- A guilty conscience needs no accuser.~ English Proverb
- An accuser may not act as a defender.~ Hebrew Proverb
- Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don’t accuse the sun of partiality.~ Chinese Proverb
- God detests a man who rushes to accuse a neighbor.~ Hebrew Proverb
- Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.~ Henry Fielding
- He who excuses himself, accuses himself.~ Gabriel Meurier
- If there is still doubt do not accuse.~ Spanish Proverb
- It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.~ Denis Diderot
- Lock your door rather than accuse your neighbor.~ Lebanese Proverb
- Never ask pardon before you are accused.~Traditional Proverb
- Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.~ King Charles I of England
- One never accuses without a little bit of lying.~ Chinese Proverb
- One accusation you can’t throw at me is that I’ve always done my best.~ Alan Shearer
- One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.~ Don Shula
- The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.~ Hebrew Proverb
- There can be no judge without an accused.~ Czech Proverb
- There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.~ Sophocles
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- A hundred-year-old revenge still has its baby teeth.~ Italian Proverb
- A man can lose sight of everything else when he’s bent on revenge, and it ain’t worth it.~ Louis L’Amour
- A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green. ~ Francis Bacon
- Ambition and revenge are always hungry.~ Danish Proverb
- Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.~ Confucius
- Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.~ Roman Polanski
- Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can’t get back from revenge.~ Iranian Proverb
- Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.~ George Bernard Shaw
- He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.~ Chinese Proverb
- He who takes revenge for a small insult, will have a bigger one thrown at him.~ Chinese Proverb
- If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?~ William Shakespeare
- If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman.~ Arabian Proverb
- It is better to die in revenge than to live on in shame.~ Arabian Proverb
- Living well is the best revenge.~ George Herbert
- No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.~ Mary Stuart
- No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.~ Spanish Proverb
- No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.~ Revenge Quotes
- Pray for revenge, and God will turn a deaf ear.~ Russian Proverb
- Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.~ German Proverb
- Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.~ Louis L’Amour
- Revenge does not long remain unrevenged.~ German Proverb
- Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.~ Walter Weckler
- Revenge is a confession of pain.~ Latin Proverb
- Revenge is a dish that should be eaten cold.~ English Proverb
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.~ Francis Bacon
- Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.~ Juvenal
- Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.~ Austin O’Malley
- Revenge is sweet.~ Traditional Proverb
- Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.~ Samuel Johnson
- Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.~ Carrie Fisher
- Shameful deeds bring on revenge.~ Norwegian Proverb
- Surviving well is your finest revenge.~ Morgan Nito
- The best revenge is massive success.~ Frank Sinatra
- The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.~ Moses Luzzatto
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.~ Josh Billings
- The revenge that is postponed is not forgotten.~ Icelandic Proverb
- To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.~ Alexander Pope
- We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- When Anger and Revenge get married, their daughter is called Cruelty.~ Russian Proverb
- When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.~ Sacha Guitry
- Widows comfort themselves when they remarry, widowers take revenge.~ French Proverb
- You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.~ Judge Hall
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- A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.~ Henry David Thoreau
- As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.~ Roseanne Barr
- Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.~ Phyllis Diller
- Housekeeping ain’t no joke.~ Louisa May Alcott
- Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.~ Ann Oakley
- Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.~ Marcelene Cox
- Housework expands to fill the time you have for it.~ Hayley Foster
- Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion.~ Fawn M. Brodie
- Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.~ Evan Esar
- Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.~ Ann Oakley
- I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know.~ Phyllis Diller
- I hate housework! You make the beds; you do the dishes. And six months later you have to start all over again.~ Joan Rivers
- Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn’t likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn’t remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Marrying is easy, it’s housework that’s hard.~ Traditional Proverbs
- No matter how many house chores you complete, there are always more to be done.~ African Proverb
- The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It’s one reason why they don’t die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.~ Margaret Mead
- The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.~ Charlotte P. Gillman
- The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.~ Lady Hasluck
- When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.~ Katharine Whitehorn
- You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.~ Herm Albright
- A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.~ Dorothea Brande
- A visit is like rainwater; you pray for it when it stays away and its a problem when it rains too much.~ Hebrew Proverb
- Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.~ Robert Zend
- Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.~ Albert Camus
- Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.~ Stuart Walker
- Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Deep down all men are alike — and that is the problem.~ Chinese Proverb
- Don’t buy someone else’s problems.~ Chinese Proverb
- Don’t think problem, think opportunity.~ Problems Quotes
- Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.~ Stanley Arnold
- Every solution breeds new problems.~ Arthur Bloch
- Flies will easily fly into the honey — their problem is how to get out.~ Iranian Proverb
- God is bigger than your problems.~ Mexican Proverb
- I am more important than my problems.~ Jose Ferrer
- I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that didn’t work out. That’s when I’ve really learned.~ Carol Burnett
- If you like to have things easy, you’ll have difficulties; if you like problems, you will succeed.~ Laotian Proverb
- If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.~ Alan W. Watts
- If we would just support each other — that’s ninety percent of the problem.~ Edward Gardner
- It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.~ Albert Einstein
- Let God’s promises shine on your problems.~ Corrie Ten Boom
- Look through your customer’s eyes. Are you the solution provider or part of the problem?~ Marlene Blaszczyk
- The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.~ Mahatma Gandhi
- Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.~ Chinese Proverb
- Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.~ Jerome Wiesner
- Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems... they are not people without problems.~ Problems Quotes
- The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.~ Michael Wickett
- The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.~ Dorothea Brande
- The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won’t satisfy.~ Problems Quotes
- The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.~ Winston Churchill
- The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.~ Elwyn Brooks White
- Those who inherit fortunes are frequently more of a problem than those who made them.~ Congolese Proverb
- Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.~ Brian Aldiss
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