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Halloween Quotes

In this scary night, please enjoy some great halloween quotes selected just for you.

I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. – Author Unknown

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,
Let loose upon the Earth till it be light… – Nicholas Gordon

Eat, drink and be scary. – Author Unknown

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon’s silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play. – Joel Benton

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween. – Erma Bombeck

Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days. – Author Unknown

halloween quotesHalloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat… – Nicholas Gordon

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. – Steve Almond

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the “spirits” of things. – Dee Snider

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below. – Theodosia Garrison

‘Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. – William Shakespeare

Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with “scary,” “spooky,” “haunted,” or “forbidden” in the title. – Scooby-Doo

Whiskey Quotes

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. – W. C. Fields

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy. – Nguyen Cao Ky

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office. – Molly Ivins

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. – Daisy Ashford

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? – W. C. Fields

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this – that ain’t my title. – Layne Staley

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P. J. O’Rourke

I can’t drink whiskey like I used to back then, that’s for sure. – Sebastian Bach

whiskey quotesI learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. – Babe Ruth

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. – Robert E. Lee

I used to like whiskey. But it’s been a long time since I’ve been drunk. – Claude Williams

I’m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four. – Joel Rosenberg

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. – Lord Dunsany

Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste. – Tug McGraw

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. – William Faulkner

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games. – Casey Stengel

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. – Buffalo Bill

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place. – Charles Kelley

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it. – Gary Allan

Relaxing Saturday: Wonderful Relaxation Quotes

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.” – Leonardo DaVinci

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“What’s the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.” – George Asaf

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly” – Thich Nhat Hanh

relaxation quotes“Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.” – Douglas Pagels

“Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response to what happens. And response is something we can choose” – Maureen Killoran

“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.” – Douglas Pagels

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” – Astrid Alauda

“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.” – Richard Carlson

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers

Luck Quotes

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next. – Amber Tamblyn

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. – James Thomas Fields

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. – Guy Kawasaki

A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time. – Eric Hoffer

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. – Emanuel Ax

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. – James A. Garfield

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on ‘Press Your Luck’. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money. – Randy West

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that. – Ed Bradley

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. – Frank Wedekind

Art depends on luck and talent. – Francis Ford Coppola

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody. – Eubie Blake

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. – Ed Bradley

Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes. – Josephine Baker

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn’t having it. She was like, you’re not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you’re going to be out of luck. – Shemar Moore

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. – Ibrahim Babangida

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don’t try it without that 10 per cent. – Richie Benaud

Care and diligence bring luck. – Thomas Fuller

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. – George Sanders

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. – Joseph Heller

Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin

Back to School Quotes

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma Bombeck

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~Margaret Laurence

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse, 1883

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”

back to schoolThe best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. ~Author Unknown

There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August. ~Author Unknown

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep. ~W.H. Auden

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author Unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin

A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she’s looking at. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert Gallagher

It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne

You can get all A’s and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Bread Quotes

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. – Omar Khayyam

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. – Cat Stevens

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. – Georges Bernanos

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

Acorns were good until bread was found. – Francis Bacon

Advertising is the ‘wonder’ in Wonder Bread. – Jef I. Richards

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. – Robert Grosseteste

And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. – Sharron Angle

bread quotesAnytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. – Milton Berle

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. – W. H. Auden

At my age, I don’t buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? – Merle Haggard

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. – Nikolai Berdyaev

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Woodrow Wilson

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it’s hard to say no. I can’t even have one piece, because when I start, I don’t stop. – Daniela Pestova

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present. – William Tyndale

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! – George Rogers Clark

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on. – Ambrose Bierce

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. – Charles Horton Cooley

Eaten bread is forgotten. – Thomas Fuller

Beach Quotes

“Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.” — Michelle Held

“A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun-drenched beach and does not send a card.” —Farmer’s Almanac

“I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.” —Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.” —Isak Dinesen

“Sponges grow in the ocean. That just ‘gets’ me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.” —Stephen Wright

beach quotes“I have always loved the beach. The smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the gentle roar of the waves all combine to create a sense of peace and calm.” —Anonymous

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.” — T. S. Eliot

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” —Robert Henri

“My life is like a stroll on the beach…as near to the edge as I can go.” —Thoreau

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” —Anonymous

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” —Jacques Cousteau

“I dropped a tear in the ocean, and whenever they find it I’ll stop loving you, only then.” —Anonymous

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” —Mother Teresa

Politics and Leadership Quotes

A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. – John F. Kennedy

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, “What a dust do I raise!” – Aesop

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. – Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. – Great Law of the Iroquois

There is a tide in the affairs of men. – Julius Caesar

The truth is treason in the Empire of Lies. – Ron Paul

One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity. – Theodore Levitt

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. – Ronald Reagan

Superficial goals lead to superficial results. – Attila the Hun

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill

Honor is doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking. – Unknown

If a man is to shed the light of the Sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. – Romain Rolland

Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. – Howard Zinn

Man is free at the instant he wants to be. – Voltaire

Great ideas alter the power balance in relationships. That’s why great ideas are initially resisted. – Hugh MacLeod

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. – Theodore Roosevelt

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. – Laozi

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. – Andrew Carnegie

A group becomes a team when all members are sure enough of themselves and their contributions to praise the skill of others. – Norman Shidle

Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. – Vince Lombardi

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. – Aristoteles

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. – Jim Rohn

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. – Plato

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. – Isaac Asimov

Fate Quotes

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. – Voltaire

Men are not prisoners of Fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. – Franklin Roosevelt

Fate QuotesHow a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. – Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. – Carl Jung

As we move through life, the force of fate creates events that we only appreciate when we reflect on our existence. – Ronald Harmon

When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade. – Dale Carnegie

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses … I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. – Euripides