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Day: January 6, 2011

Inspirational Funny Quotes

– “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug.” – Mark Twain

– “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

– “The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.” – Rogers Hornsby

– “The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.” – German Proverb

– “The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.” – Nellie Hershey Tullis

– “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” – George Will

– “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

– “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” – Sarah Brown

– “The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.” – Thomas Holcroft

Long Life Quotes

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. – Robert Browning

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. – Abraham Lincoln

It takes a long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

Life well spent is long. – Leonardo da Vinci

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. – Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first. – Bill Cosby

Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise – one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor. – C. A. Dykstra

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. – Groucho Marx

May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? – Satchel Paige

Plagiarism Quotes

– “Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I’ve ever faced since I started writing.” – Nora Roberts

– “Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.” – Howard Dietz

– “I could tell you which writer’s rhythms I am imitating. It’s not exactly plagiarism, it’s falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.” – Charles Kuralt

– “I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.” – Will McDonough

– “Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.” – Guy Debord

– “If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.” – Charles Caleb Colton

– “If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner

– “Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.” – Zelda Fitzgerald

– “No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.” – Gilbert Gottfried

– “Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.” – George A. Moore

– “What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” – Dean Inge

– “When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner