Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
...consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes...
Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. â¢George Orwell The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. â¢Henri L. Bergson Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. â¢Eleanor H. Porter The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. â¢Henry Courtney A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. â¢Leonardo Da Vinci A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. â¢Carolyn Wells Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. â¢S. Dubay A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. â¢Winston Churchill The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. â¢Sigmund Freud A feeble body weakens the mind. â¢Jean Jacques Rousseau Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. â¢Buckminster Fuller A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. â¢Anthony Trollope We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. â¢Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. â¢Jean de LaBruyere Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. â¢Napoleon Hill A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. â¢Martin Luther King, Jr. A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. â¢Nicholas Hilliard A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. â¢Eugene Ionesco Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. â¢Maxwell Maltz Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. â¢Source Unknown The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. â¢Michel de Montaigne If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. â¢Lyall Watson Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. â¢Elbert Hubbard The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. â¢Colin Wilson Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.
There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. - Psychological Reflections.
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]
Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
I was learning the importance of namesâ having them, making themâbut at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.
Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas.
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.