Archive for September, 2009
- A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice. ~ Author Unknown
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! ~Gail Sheehy
- Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.~ Gerald Gardner
- Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.~ Arabian Proverb
- I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That’s the only thing that would explain why I like a snck on Purina Do Chow.~ Dean Koontz
- I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That’s what I told my kids. I think I must have been Adolf Hitler in a past life.~ Roseanne Barr
- I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.~ Patricia Velasquez
- I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.~ Nathan Hale
- It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.~ S. I. Hayakawa
- I trained in the Kabbalah: different to Madonna’s. I followed the Western tradition, which involves tarot, astrology, past life regression, meditation. ~ David Wells
- I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.~Marcel Proust
- I was a dog in a past life. Really. I’ll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.~ William H. Macy
- Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.~ Muhammad Ali
- Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~ French Proverb
- Oh yes as a matter of fact it’s quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.~ L. Ron Hubbard
- One man’s death is another man’s life.~ Maltese Proverb
- Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life, which is short and has to be lived by you alone; and there is only one glory, which is eternal. If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.~ St. Teresa of Avila
- There is just one life for each of us: our own.~ Euripides
- To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.~ Marcus Valerius Martial
- To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.~ Omar Nelson Bradley
- Who cares about great marks left hind? We have one life… Just one. it life. We have nothing else.~ Ugo Betti
- Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. ~ Ted Andrews
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- Advice is a free gift that can become expensive for the one who gets it.
- A girl with a golden cradle doesn’t remain long in her father’s house.
- All men have three ears, one on the left of his head, one on the right and one in his heart.
- All riches come from the earth.
- Always tell the truth in the form of a joke.
- A pain in the foot is soon forgotten — a pain in the head is not.
- Ashamed of what she sees in the daytime the sun sets with a blush.
- As mills require two stones, so friendship requires two heads.
- At death’s door a man will beg for the fever.
- A woman is like the moon-some nights it is silver others gold.
- Before the fat one slims, the slim one will die.
- Better to be an ant’s head than a lion’s tail.
- Birds are caught with seed, men with money.
- Bread and cheese, eat and dance.
- Chicks ought to be counted in the fall.
- Choose a friend with the eyes of an old man, and a horse with the eyes of a young one.
- Clouds that thunder do not always rain.
- Dine with a friend but do not do business with him.
- Dogs that fight each other will join forces against the wolf.
- First think, then speak.
- Fortune visits only once.
- Friendship is not born of words alone.
- Give a horse to the one who likes the truth so that on it he can escape.
- He’s looking for the donkey while sitting on it.
- He who looks for a friend without a fault will never find one.
- He who speaks a lot learns little.
- If a rich man dies, all the world is moved; if a poor man dies, nobody knows it.
- If a woman hears that something unusual is going on in heaven, she would find a ladder to go and look.
- If you cannot become rich, be the neighbor of a rich man.
- Lamb in the spring, snow in the winter.
- Love did not grow any garlic.
- Quiet horses kick the hardest.
- The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
- The bee gets honey from the same flower where the snake sucks her poison.
- The butterfly who settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it.
- The eagle was killed by an arrow made from its own feathers.
- The only sword that never rests is the tongue of a woman.
- The sun won’t stay behind the cloud.
- The tongue of the fool is always long.
- The voice of the people is louder than the boom of a canon.
- The woman who loves her husband corrects his faults; the man that loves his wife exaggerates them.
- The world agrees in one word, time is golden.
- The world is a pot, man but a spoon in it.
- They asked a bullfrog, “Why do you croak all the time?” He replied, “I’m enchanted with my voice
- Thunder clouds do not always give rain.
- To ask a favor from a miser is like trying to make a hole in water.
- To pick up in a clumsy way is stealing, to steal in a skillful way is to pick up.
- When asked, “What news from the sea?” The fish replied “I have a lot to say, but my mouth is full of water
- When one can’t achieve something downplays it.
- When the axe came to the forest, the trees said: “The handle is one of us.”
- When the thief has stolen from a thief, God laughs in heaven.
- When they gave the donkey flowers to smell, he ate them.
- When you are asleep, your luck works out for you.
- When your fortune improves, the columns of your house appear to be crooked.
- Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind?
- While they are reading the Bible to the wolf, it says: hurry up, my flock is leaving.
- Whoever drinks on credit gets drunk more quickly.
- You are as many a person as languages you know.
- You cannot hit the point of a needle with a fist.
- You don’t satisfy your hunger by watching others work.
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- Architecture is the art of how to waste space.~ Philip Johnson
- Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.~ H. Stanley Judd
- Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all?~ Dale Carnegie
- Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!~ Les Brown
- Haste makes waste.~ English Proverb
- He wastes his tears who weeps before the judge.~ Italian Proverb
- If you continue to contaminate your own home, you will eventually suffocate in your own waste.~ Native American Proverb
- I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.~ David Bissonette
- It’s better to waste one’s youth than to do nothing with it at all.~ Georges Courteline
- Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don’t waste energy! Face life now!~ Author Unknown
- Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.~ Katherine Mansfield
- Mean fathers, wasteful sons.~ French Proverb
- Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.~ Giambattista Vico
- Never use the word “impossible”. Throw it into the verbal waste bucket.~ Author Unknown
- Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.~ George Bernard Shaw
- On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.~ Bhagavad Gita
- Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn’t go to waste.~ L’Chiam
- The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.~ Ben Herbster
- The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.~ Author Unknown
- The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life — nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.~ Anthony Robbins
- The waste basket is a writer’s best friend.~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.~ Thomas Love Peacock
- The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.~ Henry Miller
- The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.~ William Wordsworth
- To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.~ Ken Keyes Jr.
- To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.~ Author Unknown
- Waste not, want not.~ Traditional Proverb
- We’ve learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.~ Omar Nelson Bradley
- We can’t afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.~ Denis Waitley
- We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.~ William Shakespeare
- What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.~ Dan Quayle
- Willful waste brings woeful want.~ Thomas Fuller
- Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.~ George Bernard Shaw
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- Absent people do not inherit.~ French Proverb
- A good name is a second inheritance.~ German Proverb
- A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.~ Thomas Scott
- A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.~ The Holy Bible
- Come for your inheritance and you may have to pay for the funeral.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.~ Karl Kraus
- For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.~ Lord Byron
- He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.~ Yiddish Proverb
- He who inherits a hill must climb it.~ Spanish Proverb
- He who inherits a penny is expected to spend a dollar.~ German Proverb
- If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.~ Gregory Nunn
- Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man’s funeral is usually Uncle Sam.~ Olin Miller
- In the division of inheritance, friendship stands still.~ Dutch Proverb
- It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.~ Kin Hubbard
- I would rather make my name than inherit it.~ William M. Thackeray
- Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- No legacy is so rich as honestly.~ William Shakespeare
- Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.~ Ruth E. Renkel
- The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.~ Orlando A. Battista
- The country clubs, the cars the boats, your assets may be ample, but the best inheritance you can leave your kids is to be a good example.~ Barry Spilchuk
- The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.~ Isadora Duncan
- The graveyards are full of young lawyers, lost inheritance and young doctors.~ French Proverb
- The king inherits a country — the people only hard work.~ Malagasy Proverb
- The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.~ Benjamin Disraeli
- The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.~ J. Paul Getty
- They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund Burke
- Those who inherit fortunes are frequently more of a problem than those who made them.~ Congolese Proverb
- To get to know a friend, you must share an inheritance with him.~ German Proverb
- To inherit property is not to be born — it is to be still-born, rather.~ Henry David Thoreau
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.~ Honore De Belzac
- We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.~ Kenyan Proverb
- We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.~ Don Marquis
- What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.~ Goethe
- You inherit from the dead, not from the sick.~ Congolese Proverb
- You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.~ Theodore L. Cuyler
- You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.~ Theodore L. Cuyler
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- A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.~ Author Unknown
- A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.~ Charles Darwin
- Committee: a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.~ Milton Berle
- Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.~ David Lloyd George
- Don’t waste time trying to break a man’s heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.~ Helen Rowland
- Don’t waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.~ Laura Palmer
- Don’t waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence — doing your best.~ Sir Lawrence Olivier
- Do not waste a minute — not a second — in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in.~ Malagasy Proverb
- Do ye value life? Then waste not time for that is the stuff of which life is made.~ Benjamin Franklin
- Eternity — waste of time.~ Natalie Clifford Barney
- Every day you waste is one you can never make up.~ George Allen
- Go ahead with your life, your plans…. Don’t waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.~ Richard L. Evans
- I cannot afford to waste my time making money.~ Louis Agassiz
- I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.~ Ian Fleming
- It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.~ Henry Ford
- I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.~ William Shakespeare
- I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.~ Bernard Berenson
- Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.~ David J. Schwartz
- My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away~ Kim Wilde
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.~ Auguste Rodin
- Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.~ Arthur Brisbane
- She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words. ~ Corey Ford
- Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.~ Victor Hugo
- Thank you for sending me a copy of your book — I’ll waste no time reading it.~ Moses Hadas
- The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.~ William Shakespeare
- There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.~ Benjamin Disraeli
- The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.~ Alan Lakein
- Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.~ Jim Rohn
- War — what a waste of time. It’s all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.~ Author Unknown
- Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.~ Benjamin Franklin
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