Paradise
Let’s close our eyes and make our own paradise
Little we know of it, still we can try
To make a go of it (Diana Krall)
Guest Post by Donya.
Category: Other Quotes
25 Night Quotes
1. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde
2. “The night is bright, with a starlit sky, I sit and think, as time passes by. Oh starry night, with a moonlit sky, take me away, and tell me why. Give me a reason, for love’s end, give me a reason, for why I lost a friend. I sit and think, all night l” – Enya
3. “Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night.” – Chuck Palahniuk
4. “After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open skies.” – Samuel Rutherford
5. “The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep” – Chinese Proverbs
7. “Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.” – Rose F. Kennedy
8. “Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.” – Seneca
9. “But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure; And since time will not stay, We’ll add night to the day, Thus, thus we’ll fill the measure.” – Unknown
10. “Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
11. “Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun’s red sea-death-quietless.” – Philip James Bailey
12. “I love night more than day–she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.” – Philip James Bailey
13. “Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.” – Philip James Bailey
14. “The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” – Bible
15. “In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.” – Bible
16. “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” – Bible
17. “When it draws near to witching time of night.” – Robert Blair
18. “The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.” – Francis William Bourdillon
19. “Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!” – Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
20. “For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.” – Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
21. “The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains–Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learn’d the language of another world.” – Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
22. “Night’s black Mantle covers all alike. – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,” – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
23. “O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.” – George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
24. “Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,– Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings In low-toned rhythm that love’s aching stills! Dark the night Yet is she bright, For in her dark she brings the mystic star, Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love, From some unknown afar.” – George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
25. “For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n’est si beau jour qui n’amene sa nuit.]” – Epitaph
Top 10 Quotes of the year
1. Never complain. Never explain. ~ Katherine Hepburn
2. A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude ~ Bruce Wilkinson
3. Follow your heart and Learn to trust your heart. ~ Unknown
4. Be selective in your battles, don’t make every problem a war. ~ Unknown
5. Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. ~ Terri Guillemets
6. Friends are special, treasure them. ~ Unknown
7. It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn. ~ John Bradshaw
8. If I let it bother me, I wouldn’t be Bruce Lee. ~ Bruce Lee
9. Circumstances & situations do color your life but you choose what the color shall be. ~ J.H. Miller
10. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put our words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Advertising Quotes
A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain’t got nothin’. – Leo Burnett
A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that’s what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper. – Thomas Dooley
A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. – James Collins
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. – Nicholas Johnson
Advertising – a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. – Northrop Frye
Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem… ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress. – Daniel Starch
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. – Carrie P. Snow
Advertising doesn’t create a product advantage. It can only convey it. – William Bernbach
Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. – Michael Schudson
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. – Clare Boothe Luce
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. – David Ogilvy
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. – Sinclair Lewis
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. – Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. – William Bernbach
Advertising is legalized lying. – H. G. Wells
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. – David Ogilvy
Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can’t. – Morris Hite
Advertising is speech. It’s regulated because it’s often effective speech. – Jef I. Richards
Advertising is the ‘wonder’ in Wonder Bread. – Jef I. Richards
Thanksgiving Quotes
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell
So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin
Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.
~Alexander Pope
What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, “No One Diets on Thanksgiving,” 26 November 1981
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron
He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart. ~J.A. Shedd
Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck
Live Like You Were Dying
Live Like You Were Dying
Love Like You’ve Never Been Hurt
Dance Like No One’s Watching
Sing Like No One’s Listening
Laugh Like No One Cares
Because You’ve Only Got One Life To Live
Awesome Guest Post from Veronica which I want to thank.
Best Alcohol Quotes
I’ve selected for you two of the best alcohol quotes. Most funniest ones, though. I’ll be happy if you would tell me what’s your favorite. If you know another funny alcohol quote, I’ll be glad to hear it.
“It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.” – George F. Burns
“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.” – Frank Sinatra
Best Judgement Quotes
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path. – Paulo Coelho
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying. – Tom Hopkins
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement. – Seneca
Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. – Leonardo da Vinci
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. – Jean Baudrillard
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. – Jim Rohn
Kissing Quotes
Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases. – Chinese Proverb
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. – Albert Einstein
To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. – Janeane Garofalo
Stolen kisses are always sweetest. – Leigh Hunt
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. – French Proverb
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. – Winston Churchill
I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. – Chico Marx
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. – Jonathan Swift
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. – Bernard Meltzer
A kiss may ruin a human life. – Oscar Wilde
Philosophical Quotes
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying. ~Baba Ram Dass
I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
There’s more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau
Before enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu
