Archive for January, 2010
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- A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ~ Roald Dahl
- All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ~ Samuel Butler
- Always remember, money isn’t everything – but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. ~ Earl Wilson
- By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. ~ Horace Walpole
- Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ~ C. S. Lewis
- Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? ~ William Pitt Chatham
- Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense. ~ Robert Frost
- Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. ~ Max Beerbohm
- Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. ~ Augustus Hare
- He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense. ~ Ivorian Proverb
- Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed. ~ Jim Wallis
- It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- Nonsense and beauty have close connections. ~ E. M. Forster
- Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited. ~ George Santayana
- The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening. ~ Maltese Proverb
- They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. ~ Ted Nelson
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- A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. ~ H. L. Mencken
- A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~ Victor Hugo
- Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. ~ Rollo May
- Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. ~ Williams Childs
- Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means. ~ Henny Youngman
- I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there’s something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ~ Ethel Waters
- Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy. ~ Randolph Ray
- Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. ~ Kahlil Gibran
- Tenderness is a virtue. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. ~ Marlene Dietrich
- Tenderness is the rest of passion. ~ Joseph Joubert
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. ~ Samuel Johnson
- The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. ~ Henry Fielding
- The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ~ Maya Angelou
- There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ~ Jane Austen
- True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes. ~ St. Theresa of Lisieux
- Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ~ George Eliot
- We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. ~ Frederick William Robertson
- What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. ~ John Ruskin
- When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ~ George Eliot
- When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~ Louis Pasteur
- When we exaggerate our friends’ tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. ~ Marlene Dietrich
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- Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ~ Albert Pike
- Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. ~ Gabriel Marcel
- Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ~ Nicolas de Chamfort
- Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. ~ Dodie Smith
- Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. ~ Aldous Huxley
- Few people even scratch the surface; much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ~ Randolph Bourne
- Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. ~ Midge Decter
- If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. ~ John Dos Passos
- If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. ~ Fran Lebowitz
- Most true happiness comes from one’s inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. ~ William L. Shirer
- No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. ~ St. Augustine
- Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. ~ John Jay Chapman
- Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action. ~ George Gillespie
- Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. ~ Emile Durkheim
- Take time to think, it is the source of power. ~ Author Unknown
- That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation. ~ Ghose Aurobindo
- The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ~ Simone Weil
- The way we treat another human being is the way we treat our Lord. That doesn’t need further explanation as much as it needs contemplation. ~ John P. Hahn
- The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ~ Jacob Bronowski
- To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- What a man takes in by contemplation that he pours out in love. ~ Meister Eckhart
- With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. ~ William Wordsworth
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- Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ~ Marguerite Duras
- All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that’s now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. ~ Conrad Aiken
- All that’s bright must fade; the brightest still the fleetest; all that’s sweet was made but to be lost when sweetest. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- But thy eternal summer shall not fade. ~ William Shakespeare
- Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. ~ Edward Thorndike
- Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative suggestions — you can’t do this; you can’t do that; be careful; look for security, and so on. Year by year, he experiences the “realities” of life and his ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking, most children die by the time they reach their adulthood.~ Shall Sinha
- Fashions fade, but style is eternal. ~ Yves Saint-Laurent
- He who has come through the fire will fade in the sun. ~ Indian Proverb
- Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- I have something to say: it’s better to burn out, than to fade away. ~ Clancy Brown
- I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen? ~ Peter Tosh
- I went straight in. Fade in, one… whatever. He’s playing the piano in the radio station. ~ Ronald Harwood
- I’m not going to just fade out, I know. ~ Kato Kaelin
- It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade. ~ Hugh Mackay
- Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless. ~ D. H. Lawrence
- Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still. ~ Leo Buscaglia
- Lovely flowers fade fast. ~ Swedish Proverb
- Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away. ~ Traditional Proverb
- The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade. ~ Brian Sibley
- There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life. ~ Pete Maravich
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- Away from the eye, away from the mind.
- Care now, be cared for later.
- Do good and throw it in the sea.
- Do good if you expect to receive it.
- Do not drink from a well and throw a stone into it.
- Do not drink poison to quench a thirst.
- Don’t just cross a river — cross it bearing fire.
- Every eye has its look.
- Every sheep is hung by its own leg.
- Far from grave, no praying.
- Go with the powerful and people will kneel before you.
- Hit the iron while it’s still hot.
- IF only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars?
- If you feed the mouth, the eye becomes shy.
- If you sit at a crossroads, you will get sick.
- Long ago did not live long ago.
- Nobody is perfect.
- Nobody will cut a head off except the one who put it on.
- Nobody will plough the land except its cows.
- Once deep pools, now a crossing place.
- One hand can’t clap.
- One thumb alone does not kill a louse.
- Only the soil knows when a young mouse is ill.
- Pride is the mask of our sins.
- Sell what you have bought while the dust is still on your shoes.
- The empty gives the way to the full.
- The eye cannot rise above the eyebrow.
- The eye is the one that eats.
- The eye of a master does more work than both his hands.
- The eye sees, but the hand can’t reach.
- The eye will often wander the road that love has taught.
- The heart is a tree; it grows where it wants.
- The house is our father’s and the strangers came to kick us out.
- The ignorant is his own enemy.
- The one who loves does not hate.
- There will be a day for the oppressor when he will be crushed like garlic.
- Those who dig an evil hole will fall into it.
- Too far for jackals? No worthwhile tree here!
- Whatever is written on the forehead is always seen.
- Whatever man had done, man may do.
- Where there is abundance, there is poverty.
- Who has no past, has no future.
- You only hear three voices in this world: the babbling of the stream, Jewish law, and money.
- You will not dare mistreating the face you see in the morning.
- Your close neighbor is better than your faraway brother.
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