Showing posts with label sayings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sayings. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

Audrey Hepburn Quotes...

Audrey Hepburn Quotes


"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really
start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book,
and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."


"Paris is always a good idea."


"If I get married, I want to be very married."


"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm.
As you get older, remember you have another hand. The first is to help
yourself, the second is to help others."


"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and
you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up.
Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"


"If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read
fairy-tales and I like them best of all."


"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at
leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is
the best calorie burner. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls...
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."


"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips,
speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge
that you are never alone."


"People even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,
revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."


"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."


Friday, November 12, 2010

Dog Quotes...



Dog Quotes


"Whoever said you can't buy happiness
forgot about puppies."
- Gene Hill


"To his dog, every man is Napoleon;
hence the constant popularity of dogs."
- Aldous Huxley


"No one appreciates the very special genius of
your conversation as the dog does."
- Christopher Morley


"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance,
everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a
cat that will ignore him."
- Dereke Bruce


"When a man's best friend is his dog,
that dog has a problem."
- Edward Abbey


"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance,
and to turn around three times before lying down."
- Robert Benchley


"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go
with you in the car, in case the need should arise for
them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
- Dave Barry


"Ever consider what dogs must think of us? I mean,
here we come back from a grocery store with the most
amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must
think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
- Anne Tyler


"No animal should ever jump up on the dining room
furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold
his own in the conversation."
- Fran Lebowitz


"If I have any beliefs about immortality,
it is that certain dogs I have known will go
to heaven, and very, very few persons."
- James Thurber


Friday, October 29, 2010

Quotes on How to Treat Others...




Quotes on How to Treat Others

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa

"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy
to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to
relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone
unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is
where our love for each other must start."
- Mother Teresa

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
- The Dalai Lama

"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."
- Homer

"The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"To err is human, to forgive divine."
- Alexander Pope

"Do right. Do your best.
Treat others as you want to be treated."
- Lou Holtz

"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to
you - not because they are nice, but because you are."
- Author Unknown

"Whoever one is, and wherever one is,
one is always in the wrong if one is rude."
- Maurice Baring

"A little consideration, a little thought for others,
makes all the difference."
- A. A. Milne, 'Winnie The Pooh'

"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he
doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be,
remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
- A. A. Milne, 'Winnie The Pooh'


Friday, October 15, 2010

Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt...




Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt


"Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it
one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."


"He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend,
loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all."

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do
yourself."


"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."


"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a
good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."


"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough
to make them all yourself."


"If we want a free and peaceful world - if we want to make the deserts
bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it."


"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people."


"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
but beautiful old people are works of art."


"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog:
'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'"


"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At 70,
I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly.
You know that 'this too shall pass!'"



Friday, October 8, 2010

Short Quotes to Ponder...



Short Quotes to Ponder


"Reflect upon your present blessings,
of which every man has many."
- Charles Dickens


"Anticipate the good so you may enjoy it."
- An Ethiopian Proverb


"Imagination is far more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein


"Let your heart determine your destination and your
mind shall carry you there."
- Author Unknown


"Never be unmindful of your own dignity."
- John Brown


"It does not matter how slowly you go,
as long as you do not stop."
- Confucius


"When you have faults,
do not fear to abandon them."
- Confucius


"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."
- Jonathan Winters


"Admire those who attempt great things,
even if they fail."
- Seneca


"Rivers know this: there is no hurry.
We shall get there someday."
- A. A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh