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Brevity is the soul of the wit, how often have we heard this but we keeep going on and on and on and never get to the point. Here are some brevity quotes that will remind each time you try to beat around the bush.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
~Baltasar Gracian
There’s a great [...]
July 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Famous | No Comments
Some of our favorite hypocrisy quotes and sayings and some quotes about hypocrites.
O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!
~ William Shakespeare
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
~ Bertrand Russell
Hypocrisy [...]
June 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Famous, Life | No Comments
“Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ”
~Author Unknown , Those were the days when we didn’t have debt made through a plastic card.
“We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ”
~Gloria Steinem
“We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we [...]
December 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Famous, Life | 1 Comment
Starting my favorite collection of retirement quotes with this funny quote by
Groucho Marx
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.”
~ Seneca
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don?€™t mind ?€? it doesn?€™t matter”
~Mark Twain
“Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds [...]
July 17th, 2008 | Posted in Famous, Profession, Theme | No Comments
Some famous Christmas Quotes
“Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.”
“There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries. ”
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
“A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner. “I don’t like the turkey, but [...]
November 24th, 2007 | Posted in Christmas, Famous, Festival | No Comments
From Casablanca:
Ilsa: I wasn’t sure you were the same. Let’s see, the last time we met…
Rick: Was La Belle Aurore.
Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris.
Rick: Not an easy day to forget.
Ilsa: No.
Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.
From Its [...]
November 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Famous, Movies | 1 Comment
Today is september 19th, the International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD). ITLAPD is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers , of the United States, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.Ahoy Mate! The date was selected [...]
September 19th, 2007 | Posted in Famous, Funny, Short | 8 Comments
Quite a number of us want some achievement in life. There are a many who don’t, and they are content with who they are, what they are. Are those who wants to achieve something better? Are those who are content better? I am not here to start a debate on that.
But for all those who [...]
July 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Famous, Inspirational, Success | No Comments
Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.
True love never [...]
January 21st, 2007 | Posted in Famous | 2 Comments
Zsa Zsa gabor was more famous for her witty remarks than her acting. She also had some memorable affairs:
From wikipedia:
In the late 1950s, Zsa Zsa had dinner with Frank Sinatra at LaRue’s on the Sunset Strip and spent only one romantic evening with him.
Gabor also had a relationship with Porfirio Rubirosa, a noted Dominican international [...]
January 12th, 2007 | Posted in Celebrity, Famous | 2 Comments