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Day: January 16, 2011

Funny Wise Quotes

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The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. – Robert Bloch

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. – Unknown

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy. –Henry Kissinger

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open. – Unknown

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. – Cathy Carlyle

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. – Unknown

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

A person who can explain color to a blind man can explain everything in life. – Unknown

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. – George Bernard Shaw

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. –Albert Einstein

Wise Quotes about Love

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A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days. – Tim Allen

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. – Mother Teresa

Love is the history of a woman’s life; it is an episode in man’s. – Germaine De Stael

Love makes life so confusing but without love would you want to live? – Unknown

Romance is the icing, but love is the cake. – Unknown

Age does not protect you from love. But, love, to some extent, protects you from age – Jeanne Moreau

Love either finds equality or makes it. – John Dryden

Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. – Henry Ward Beecher

Wise Quotes about Life

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It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. – Albert Einstein

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

A hopeless person feels difficulty in every chance but, a hopeful person feels a chance in every difficulty. – Unknown

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. – Pope John XXIII

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? – Coleman Cox

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. – Unknown

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. – Chinese proverb

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Unknown

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door. – Unknown

Famous Attitude Quotes

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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~ Ken Keyes Jr

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise. ~ Kathleen Turner

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone. ~ Robert Frost

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~ William James

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~ Herm Albright, Reader’s Digest, June 1995

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~ English Proverb

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~ G.K. Chesterton, On Running After One’s Hat, All Things Considered, 1908

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~ C.C. Scott

Anywhere is paradise; it’s up to you. ~ Author Unknown

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~ Winston Churchill

Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~ Glorie Abelhas

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I’d like to express my thanks –
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~ Irving Berlin, I Got the Sun in the Morning, 1946.

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~ Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect – 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~ Ronald Spark

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~ William Arthur Ward

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~ Hugh Downs

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~ Vince Lombardi

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~ Marcus Antonius