Cool Quotes: January 2011

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.		Pearl S. Buck

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?		T.S. Eliot

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.		Eric Hoffer

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.		Albert Einstein

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.		Mother Teresa

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.		Germaine Greer

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.		Cyril Connolly

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.		Joseph Conrad

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.		Maya Angelou

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.		Kurt Vonnegut

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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.		Oliver Wendell

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.		Scott Fitzgerald

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.		Bruce Barton

If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.		Leo Burnett

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.		Bill Cosby

How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.		James French

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.		James Baldwin

The right name is an advertisement in itself.		Claude Hopkins

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.		Aldous Huxley

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.		Samuel Johnson

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We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.		Will Rogers

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.		Lucius A Seneca

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.		William M Thackeray

Once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.		Eleanor Roosevelt

Last week I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister ... and now wish to withdraw that statement.		Mark Twain

Santa Claus has the right idea ... visit people only once a year.		Victor Borge

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir ... mighty scarce.		Mark Twain

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.		Socrates

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.		Groucho Marx

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.		Jimmy Durante

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.		Alfred North

He who limps is still walking.		Joan Rivers

Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.		Peter Levi

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.		Charles Adams

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.		Louis A. Allen

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.		Henri F Amiel

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.		Henri Amiel

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.		St. Thomas Aquinas

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.		Hannah Arendt

It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''		Francis Bacon

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If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.		Unknown

No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.		Ronaldo Assis Moreira

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.		Vincent Gogh

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.		Confucius

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.		Oliver Wendell Holmes

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.		Wolfgang Goethe

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.		Samuel Johnson

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.		Gene Fowler

To spend life for something which outlasts it.		William James

One who has done nothing, is not known until they have done something.		Allie Ross

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Without a goal, you cannot survive.		Dale Adams

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains		Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is sexless		John Henry

The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker		Earl Pitts

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.		Earl Nightingale

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities		John Ruskin

A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.		George Shaw

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.		Sir William Temple

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.		Sir Scott

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.		Henry Thoreau