Tag: Gustave Flaubert

Famous Quotes on Life

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

1. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

2. The most important things in life aren’t things. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

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

4. Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth. – Mark Twain

5. Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. – Keri Russell

6. Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

7. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson

8. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou

9. May you live every day of your life. – Jonathan Swift

10. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden

11. Where there is love there is life. – Gandhi

12. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

14. The purpose of life is to fight maturity. – Dick Werthimer

15. I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. – Zelda Fitzgerald

16. Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. – Horace

17. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

18. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot

19. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! – Miguel de Cervantes

20. Read in order to live. – Gustave Flaubert

21. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. – Emily Dickinson

22. Life is good, without it we’d all be dead. – Unknown

Idiots Quotes

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

I, I don’t think anybody’s continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. – Rube Goldberg

I’m all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius. – Leo Szilard

I’ve known attractive airheads, and I’ve known ugly idiots. – Neil Cavuto

If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better. – Peter Finch

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain

It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That’s why we’ll never have flying cars. People don’t know how to drive. – Dustin Diamond

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots. – Dan Fogelberg

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? – Martin Farquhar Tupper

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. – Gustave Flaubert

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access. – Peter Nelson

Only idiots refuse to change their minds. – Brigitte Bardot

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. – David Ogilvy

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they’re idiots. – Eric Schmidt

So I don’t think I’m gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots. – Todd Rundgren

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don’t open their minds. Most of them are idiots. – Rob Schneider

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. – Rebecca West

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots. – Randy Cross

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. – Otto von Bismarck

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison’s lyrics were like poetry… like that was a deep thought. – Bruce McCulloch

Work Quotes

Posted on January 11, 2011January 11, 2011 by

– “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

– “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.” – Al Capp

– “As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” – Irvin S. Cobb

– “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert

– “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle

– “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

– “Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

– “Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” – J. Paul Getty

– “Great ideas originate in the muscles.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing

– “I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” – Richard Nelson Bolles

– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso

– “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” – William Faulkner

– “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank

– “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace