Archive for April, 2009

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.~ Herbert Prochnow

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.~ Fred A.Allen

All marriages are happy it’s living together afterwards that causes all the problems.~ Raymon Hull

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.~ Helen Keller

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last –more than passion or even sex!~ Simon Signoret

Children are buttonholes that hold their parents together.~ Arabian Proverb

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.~ Henry Ford

Constant togetherness is fine — but only for Siamese twins.~ Victoria Billings

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.~ Malcolm S.Forbes

Eating and drinking holds body and soul together.~ German Proverb

Fear and love do not go together.~ Lithuanian Proverb

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.~ Woodrow T.Wilson

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.~ Wugene Ionesco

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.~ Charles Dickens

If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together again.~ Malagasy Proverb

If the family is together, the soul is in the right place.~ Russian Proverb

If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.~ Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.~ Richard M.Nixon

It’s easy to get the players; it’s getting them to play together that’s the tough part~ Casey Stengel

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It’s a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife, the way to stay close is to do things together and share.~ Barbara Bush

Keep your tents apart and your hearts together.~ Tuareg Proverb

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.~ Max Eastman

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Marriages are all happy. It’s having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.~ Irish Proverb

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.~ Water Savage Landor

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!~ Robert Browning

Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.~ T.S.Eliot

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.~ Hector Hugh Munro

Pride and poverty don’t get along, but often live together.~ Traditional Proverb

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.~ Robert Redford

Success and rest don’t sleep together.~ Russian Proverb

The family that prays together stays together.~ Traditional Proverb

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.~ Pat Riley

The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb won’t get much sleep.~ Traditional Proverb

The poor man and the rich man do not play together.~ Ghanaian Proverb

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn’t give a damn what goes on in between.~ Sir Thomas Beecham

The teeth often bite the tongue, still the two stay together.~ Danish Proverb

The wolf and the dog agree about the goat — which together they eat.~ Basque Proverb

Those who live together cannot hide their behinds from each other.~ Namibian Proverb

Together, we’ll live with the sadness. I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul.~ Koushun Takami

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.~ William Shakespeare

Two great talkers never go far together.~ Spanish Proverb

We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.~ Woodrow T.Wilson

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.~ Martin Luther King Jr.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.~ John Ruskin

When the kitchen maids are together the roast burns.~ French Proverb

When three men march together, one of them must be the boss.~ Manchuria Proverb

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.~ Zig Ziglar

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.~ Joseph Joubert

With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.~ Chinese Proverb

A man by himself is in bad company.~ Eric Hoffer
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.~ Rainer Maria Rilke
A man is known by the company he keeps.~ Gaelic Proverb
Cheerful company shortens the journey.~ German Proverb
Choose your company before you choose your drink.~ Gaelic Proverb

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.~ George Ebers

Good company on a journey is worth a coach.~ Scottish Proverb
Good company on the road is the shortest of short cuts.~ Italian Proverb
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach.~ Japanese Proverb
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.~ George Herbert
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.Jean-Paul Sarter
In a choice between bad company and loneliness — the second is preferable.~ Spanish Proverb
In the company of the blind, close your eyes.~ Turkish Proverb
In the company of the good we become good.~ Dutch Proverb
I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.~ R.A.Torry
Misery loves company.~ English Proverb
No road is too long in the company of a friend.~ Japanese Proverb
Poverty parts good company.~ Irish Proverb
Taste is tiring like good company.~ Francis Picabia
Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are.~ FrenchProverb
The dead are not seen in the company of the living.~ African Proverb
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.~ Ruckett
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.~ John Lyly
The third person makes good company.~ Dutch Proverb
Try to be in good company, even when you are alone.~ Hungarian Proverb

• A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well.~  Dan Rather
• Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.~ Lord Byron
• 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.~ Richard M DeVos
• Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.~ Author Unknown
• It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.~ Yogi Berra
• It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.~  Chin-ning Chu
• Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.~ Ruth Graham
• Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.~ Wilson Mizner
• Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.~ Jerry Rubin
• My toughest fight was with my first wife.~ Muhammad Ali
• People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.~ Stuart Briscoe
• People need trouble — a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. ~ William Faulkner
• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.~ John Foster Dulles
• The really tough thing about humility is you can’t brag about it.~ Gene Brown
• The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. ~ T J Watson
• The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.~ Irving Berlin
• Tough times don’t last but tough people do. ~ French proverb
• Tough times gets you real friends and others get you tough times.~ Author Unknown
• The tougher the job, the greater the reward.~ George Allen
• We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.~ Martin Luther King Jr.
• We need tough days to drive us to our knees.~ Author Unknown
• When the going still gets tough, the tough, pray.~ Author Unknown
• When the going gets tough-The tough go fishing!~ Author Unknown
• When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.~ Author Unknown
• When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~ Danish Proverb

Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success.~ Louisa May Alcott

Every day of your life is a page of your history.~ Arabian Proverb

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.~ Woody Allen

Life, like a fire, begins in smoke and ends in ashes.~ Arabian Proverb

The less routine the more life.~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s finger.~ Hans Christian Andersen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering; and it’s all over much too soon.~ Woody Allen

Don’t ask in this life for the three most difficult things: good sons, long life and a long beard.~ Chinese Proverb

Your life is what your thoughts make it.~ Marcus Aurelius

• Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.~ Thomas Kempis
• A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.~ Joseph Fort Newton
• A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.~ Bertrand Russell
• Consult duty, not events.~ Walter Savage Landor
• Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.~ Thomas Carlyle
• Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.~ Mark Twain
• Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.~ Pierre Corneille
• Duty before devotion.~ Mexican Proverb
• Duty cannot exist without faith.~ Benjamin Disraeli
• Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.~ Robert E. Lee
• Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.~ Mother Teresa
• Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty — the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.~ Mark Twain
• Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.~ John D. Rockefeller
• How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.!~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.~ Nelson Mandela
• It is easier to do one’s duty to others than to one’s self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.~ Thomas Szasz
• Love can do much, but duty more.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.~ Theodore Roosevelt
• Never step over one duty to perform another.~ English Proverb
• Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.~ Chinese Proverb
• The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.~ William R. Alger
• The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.~Indian Proverb
• The path of duty lies in what is nearby, but men look for it in things far off.~ Chinese Proverb
• The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.~ George Eliot
• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.~ Abraham Lincoln
• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.~ Robert Louis Stevenson
• To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times — madness.~ Dutch Proverb
• What is possible is our highest duty.~ William E. McLaren
• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.~ George Bernard Shaw
• Where there are no rights, there are no duties.~ Henri Benjamin Rebecque
• Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.~ Theodore Parker