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Children Quotes

– “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” – Stacia Tauscher

– “You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

– “In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?"  And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."” – Robert Braul

– “I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.” – Liz Armbruster

– “A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often.” – Unknown

– “We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.” – Christopher Morley

– “A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.” – Unknown

– “Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert

– “Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.” – William Stafford

– “The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.” – Robert Brault

– “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982

– “Children are one third of our population and all of our future.” – Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

Funny Idiots Quotes

– "If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?" – Will Rogers

– "Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it." – Mark Twain

– "In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards." – Mark Twain

– "We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later." – Louis Aragon

– "We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do." – Stephen Colbert

– "There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot." – Scott Adams

– "Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest." – Alexandre Dumas

Life’s Wisdom Quotes

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – Unknown

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown

“We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.” – Unknown

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler

“All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for…There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.” –George MacDonald

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau

“He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, that is when you command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King

Inspirational Quotes in Images

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; And for everything you gain, you lose something else. It’s about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.inspirational_quote_image The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you; It is when you don’t understand yourself.inspirational-quotes-1inspirational_3

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Top 10 Funny Quotes of the Day

1. “It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up, because by that time I was too famous.” – Robert Benchley

2. “What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.” – Oscar Levant 

3. “I’m always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can’t understand is, if they don’t know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?” – Paul Merton 

4. “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is ‘never try’.” – Homer Simpson 

5. “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?” – Jean Kerr 

6. “If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?” – Steven Wright 

7. “At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I’m not there I carry on as usual.” – Partick Moore 

8. “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.” – Groucho Marx

9. “You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is.” – Ellen DeGeners 

10. “I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.” – Elayne Boosler