Quotes and Sayings

This is my favorite Irish Drinking Quote, actually a Toasts,

“Here’s to our wives and girlfriends:
May they never meet!”

And here is a drinking love quote, “But the greatest love–the love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother… Is the tender, passionate, undying love, Of one beer drunken slob for another.”

“Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.”
~Alex Levine

“Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.”
~Oscar Wilde

When we drink, we get drunk.
“When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven!”
~Unknown

“A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ”

“God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t rule the world!”
~ Unknown

“I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my Mum. I know I’ve got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover. ”
~Noel Gallagher

“There is no beer in heaven, That’s why we drink ours here. ”
~ Unknown

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
~William Butler Yeats

“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
~Oscar Wilde

“What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.”
~Unknown

“He’d step over ten naked women to get at a pint.”

“It’s the first drop that destroys you; there’s no harm at all in the last.”

“The devil invented Scotch whiskey to make the Irish poor.”

We have to Thank God, A friend, Our Mother, father and anyone who have done something for us. We thank them everyday, and though a simple Thank you Often suffice, can’t we be more creative and make it more worthwhile? Here are some Quotes on and about Thank you.

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”"
~ William Arthur Ward

“I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ”
~William Shakespeare

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues”
~Cicero

“Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.”
~ David Thomas

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
~ William Blake

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ”
~Oscar Wilde

“Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.”
~ A. J. Cronin

If someone gives you a book for a present, you can use this thank you quote, “A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
~ Garrison Keillor

“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ”
~Benjamin Disraeli

“It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.”
~ Naomi Williams

“How beautiful a day can be When kindness touches it! ”
~ George Elliston

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We all have had our share of embarrassing moments.
This collection of Embarrassment Quotes is to look back at those moments and share a smile by looking at what famous people had to say about embarrassments.

“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”
~ Douglas Engelbart

“Some people play very, very well just so they won’t get embarrassed.”
~ Lynn Swann

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
~Tony Benn

“There’s a blush for won t, and a blush for shan’t, and a blush for having done it: There’s a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.”
~John Keats

“I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.”
~Paul Tillich

“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
~George Eliot

“We never forgive those who make us blush.”
~Jean-Francois De La Harpe

“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.”
~Byron, Lord

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
~ Helen Keller

“Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Some quotes and sayings on loneliness after some break. We all feel lonely at one point or the other, and lucky are those few who have the company of love ones and friends all the time. I sometimes enjoy solitude, but not always!

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.” ~Tennessee Williams

And famous people are the most lonely as this saying goes, “Being Prime Minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

And so are the rich people, “Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.” ~ Joan Collins

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”~Abigail Van Buren

“When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most”~ Ronald Anthony

“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.” ~Vincent Van Gogh

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” ~Kahlil Gibran

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”~ Mother Teresa

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”~Pedro Almodovar

“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.”~Anton Checkov

“Be good and you will be lonely.”~ Mark Twain

“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”~ Joseph F. Newton

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”~Sven Goran Eriksson

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”~Bertrand Russell

“Every man is afraid of something. That’s how you know he’s in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.” ~ unknown

“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”~ H. Jackson Browne

“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.” ~ Unknown

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” ~Marcus Aurelius

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. “~Ambrose Redmoon

“The key to change… is to let go of fear.”~ Rosanne Cash

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Bertrand Russell

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. “~Marie Curie

“Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.”~ Bill Russell

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”~ Oscar Wilde

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. “~Pearl S. Buck

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”~ Dostoyevsky

“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.” ~Henry H. Tweedy

“A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises.”
~ Euripides

“Being frightened is an experience you can’t buy.”
~ Anthony Price

“Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ” ~James Hastings

“Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?” ~ Trevor Kay

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” ~ Babe Ruth

Here is my favorite collection of sorry quotes, and quotes we can use for apologies.

The best way to say I am sorry is just that, yeah ” I am Sorry”, without giving an excuse.

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” ~Kimberly Johnson

“And I’m sorry I just really have to question a lot of these New Wave people that say what they’re doing is so radically new and so different. Cause I really don’t see it.” ~Lester Bangs

“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.” ~Lynn Johnston

“The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief” This is a saying/proverb on being sorry.

Another saying, from Aesop “We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.”

“Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry “~ Mark Twain

“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” ~Grace Hopper

“Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.” ~Charles Osgood

“True friends stab you in the front.” ~Oscar Wilde

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~e.e. cummings

“I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.” ~ Robin Williams

“Love is always having to say I’m sorry.” ~ Bob Irwin

“Envy, to which th’ ignoble mind’s a slave, Is emulation in the learn’d or brave.”

“It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.”

“It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.”

“It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy a friend who has prospered.”

“Who among us hasn’t envied a cat’s ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?”

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”

“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”

“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”

“Envy! eldest-born of hell! ”

“There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.”

“You can’t be envious and happy at the same time”

“Envy shoots at others and wounds itself”

On a Positive note, ‘How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.”

“Envy eats nothing but its own heart”

Here is a quote from Bible, “A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.”

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“Faith makes all things possible…. love makes all things easy.”

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”

“Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.”

“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”

“Faith is reason grown courageous. ”

“Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding on to”

“To me faith means not worrying. ”

“I would rather err on the side of faith than on the side of doubt.”

“Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”

“Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”

“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

“Have faith, knowing tomorrow will hold the blessings of God.”

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. “

This one is a funny Attitude quote “When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you’ve growled all day long. ”

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”

“If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.”

“Make your optimism come true. ”

“Complaining is good for you as long as you’re not complaining to the person you’re complaining about.”

“Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ”

“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”

“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ”

” Attitudes are more important than facts. ”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”

“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.”

“Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.” That is what we call the never give up attitude.

“Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

It broke my heard when I read this one, “She sits in her corner singing herself to sleep. Wrapped in all of the promises that no one seems to keep.”

And someone said, “I’m sick of the loneliness, I’m sick of the sadness, When will it be over?” The only comforting word I could give was, just hang on. It will pass, it always does.

Oh My God, This was so heart wrenching.
“Please Say, It Wasn’t Real;
That It Wasn’t You, Lying In That Casket Today;
That You Aren’t Really Gone To Stay..

Please, Tell Me I Haven’t Lost My Daddy.”

What could I say?

” I cry for the time that you were almost mine,
I cry for the memories I’ve left behind,
I cry for the pain, the lost, the old the new,
I cry for the times I thought I had you”

And then there can be strength in sadness, like this saying by Churchill
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

And “He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.”

And a saying on Life:
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

And on love:

“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.”

More sad love quotes.

Do add your quotes.

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