Archive for the “Miscellaneous Quotes” Category
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- A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it. ~ Trygve Lie
- A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That’s probably because school hasn’t encouraged us to notice what’s hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself. ~ Peter Kline
- All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. ~ Brendan F. Behan
- Always wear expensive shoes. People notice. ~ Brian Koslow
- As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. ~ Jane Smiley
- By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time, we do not even notice it. Instead of “I am afraid,” we say, “I don’t want to,” or “I don’t know how,” or “I can’t.” ~ Andrea Dworkin
- Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. ~ Don Marquis
- Ever notice that people never say “It’s only a game” when they’re winning? ~ Ivern Ball
- Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!~ Marion D. Hanks
- God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.~ Spencer W. Kimball
- I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. ~ Maria Mitchell
- I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.~ Susan B. Anthony
- If I have had any success, it’s due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get. ~ Charles F. Kettering
- If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it. ~ I.Paderewski
- If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money. ~ Traditional Proverb
- It doesn’t do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
- It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ~ Al Batt
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. ~ Aristotle
- Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. ~ Garrison Keillor
- Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. ~ Bruce Lee
- Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ~ S. I. Hayakawa
- People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.~ Frank Romer
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others. ~ Samuel Johnson
- The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not. ~ William Feather
- To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. ~ Joseph Jefferson
- We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- You do not notice changes in what is always before you. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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- A blushing lie is better than the pale truth. ~ Norwegian Proverb
- A girl that blushes too much knows too much. ~ Chinese Proverb
- A letter does not blush. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
- After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- Better to blush once than pale a hundred times. ~ Serbian Proverb
- Blushing is the paint of good habits. ~ Hungarian Proverb
- He who asks for alms blushes once; he who refuses, twice. ~ Turkish Proverb
- How can you trust anyone who doesn’t know how to blush? ~ Cuban Proverb
- It is better to blush than to keep the concern in your heart. ~ African Proverb
- It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush. ~ George Herbert
- Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to. ~ Mark Twain
- Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
- Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood. ~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- There’s a blush for won’t, and a blush for shan’t, and a blush for having done it: There’s a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it. ~ John Keats
- Truth does not blush. ~ Quintus Septimus Tertullianus
- We never forgive those who make us blush. ~ Jean-Francois De La Harpe
- When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. ~ St. Gregory the Great
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- A braggart is recognized by his headgear. ~ Namibian Proverb
- A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn’t believed.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- Always talk big and you will never be forgotten. ~ French Proverb
- Bragging saves advertising. ~ American Proverb
- Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. ~ Johnny Unitas
- Don’t show off every day, or you’ll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. ~ Baltasar Gracian
- Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts. ~ Ellen Gould White
- He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking. ~ Lisa Edmondson
- I got a nice jumper on me, and i’m not just bragging. ~ Lil Bow Wow
- If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- It ain’t bragging if you can do it. ~ Dizzy Dean
- It’s as difficult to be rich without bragging as it is to be poor without complaining. ~ Chinese Proverb
- It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ~ Muhammad Ali
- Tell me what you brag about and I’ll tell you what you lack. ~ Spanish Proverb quotes
- There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them. ~ Danish Proverb
- Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray. ~ Richard Crashaw
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- A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~ Kathie Lee Gifford
- A known mistake is better than an unknown truth. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. ~ William Harvey
- Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ~ John Fowles
- Design is an unknown. ~ Geoffrey Beene
- Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. ~ Joan D. Vinge
- It is better to exist unknown to the law. ~ Irish Proverb
- It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ~ Wallace Stevens
- Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The highway is always shorter than the unknown side roads. ~ Turkish Proverb
- The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. ~ Rene Magritte
- There is no cure for an unknown illness. ~ Myanmar Proverb
- There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ~ Elias Canetti
- When dealing with the unknown, children are often bewildered by the fact that their parents do not know all the answers. ~ Edgar N. Jackson
- When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. ~ Patrick Overton
- You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown. ~ Thomas Mann
- You cannot worship an unknown saint. ~ Mexican Proverb
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