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Yoga Quotes

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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~B.K.S. Iyengar

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. ~Amy Weintraub

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. ~Bob Harper

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. ~Sharon Gannon

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. ~Phillip Moffitt

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. ~Carol Krucoff

For me, yoga is not just a workout - it's about working on yourself. ~Mary Glover, "Health Profile: Yoga leaves aches and pains behind," Arizona Republic, 6 April 2004 (page E3, article by Connie Midey)

A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~Terri Guillemets

I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner and co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com

Writing Quotes

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There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison

Worrying Quotes

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If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ~Mark Twain

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~James Russel Lowell

If things go wrong, don't go with them. ~Roger Babson

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them. ~Author Unknown

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman

Women Quotes iii

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If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry

Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. ~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. ~Cindy Crawford

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ~Laurence J. Peter

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton

Wise Words Quotes

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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull (U.S. geologist, 1976-)

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox

Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht

[O]wning your burdens is half the battle. ~From the television show Scrubs

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard

Always when judging
Who people are,
Remember to footnote
The words "So far."
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr

A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"

Wisdom Quotes ii

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~Elbert Hubbard

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster

Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ~Mary Wilson Little

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. ~Bill Veeck

The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
~Sara Teasdale

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

Winter Quotes

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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~Shirley Ann Grau

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. ~Stanley Crawford

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson

Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry

When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
~B. Cybrill

Weekend Quotes

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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~Bill Watterson

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley

There aren't enough days in the weekend. ~Rod Schmidt

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~Chuck Palahniuk

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Why wait for the weekend to have fun ~Loesje, loesje.org

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. ~Author Unknown

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. ~Ogden Nash

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess

Of all the days that's in the week
I dearly love but one day
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
~Henry Carey

Weeds Quotes

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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ~Doug Larson

A weed is but an unloved flower. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's. ~Author Unknown

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. ~Donald Culross Peattie

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. ~Dave Barry

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of. ~Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903

But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last. ~Robert M. Pyle

Weeds are nature's graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere

They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains. ~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994

We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it. ~E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935

Weather Quotes

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes

Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana

Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~George Carlin

Water Quotes

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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. ~William Wordsworth

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David Thoreau

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad

Never a ship sails out of the bay
But carries my heart as a stowaway.
~Roselle Mercier Montgomery, The Stowaway

Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. ~Henry David Thoreau

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen

Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley

War Quotes

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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" ~Eve Merriam

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. ~Albert Einstein

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~David Friedman

"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. ~James Morrow

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

All the arms we need are for hugging. ~Author Unknown

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon

Walking Quotes

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If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. ~G.M. Trevelyan

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~George Macauley Trevelyan

I dream of hiking into my old age. ~Marlyn Doan

Virtue Quotes

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Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. ~Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. ~Henry David Thoreau

Blushing is the color of virtue. ~Diogenes

Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm. ~Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew, 1762

Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~George Bernard Shaw

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by. ~André Maurois, Ariel, 1924

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtue is its own revenge. ~E.Y. Harburn

Violence Quotes

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There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. ~Sam Peckinpah

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. ~Gerard Vanderhaar

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ~Alan Paton

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. ~John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. ~Gil Bailie

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ~John Frederick Boyes

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. ~Daniel Webster

In violence we forget who we are. ~Mary McCarthy

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. ~Manitonquat

Vices Quotes

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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." ~W. MacNeile Dixon

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. ~Holbrook Jackson

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ~Thornton Wilder

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. ~Abraham Lincoln

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. ~J. Petit-Senn

Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. ~Woody Allen

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it. ~Salvador de Madariaga

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914

Vegetarianism Quotes

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A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. ~David Brenner

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. ~Harvey Diamond

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. ~Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ~Paul McCartney

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. ~George Bernard Shaw

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. ~Henry David Thoreau

How can you eat anything with eyes? ~Will Kellogg

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. ~Neal Barnard

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner. ~Lynda Montgomery

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw

Vanity Quotes

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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. ~Blaise Pascal

Vanity is the quicksand of reason ~George Sand

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ~Thomas Wolfe

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. ~Benjamin Franklin

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust. ~Author Unknown

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ~François de la Rochefoucauld

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. ~John Adams

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. ~Miguel De Unamuno

Vacation Quotes

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No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. ~Elbert Hubbard

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. ~Morris Fishbein

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. ~Earl Wilson

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. ~Author Unknown

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~Margaret Laurence

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. ~Robertson Davies

The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see. ~Author Unknown

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. ~William James

We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. ~Erma Bombeck

Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip. ~Author Unknown

Unemployment Quotes

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It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ~Harry S Truman

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~William E. Barrett

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ~Thomas Carlyle

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. ~William Shakespeare

A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception. ~George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. ~Slappy White

[O]f all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. ~Jane Addams, 1910

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ~Cato the Elder

The hardest work in the world is being out of work. ~Whitney Young, Jr.

An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. ~Mason Cooley

Twins Quotes

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There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. ~Josh Billings

It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're blessed with twins. ~Author Unknown

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. ~Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band

A good neighbor will babysit. A great neighbor will babysit twins. ~Author Unknown

Twice as much to love, two blessings from above. ~Author Unknown

God touched our hearts so deep inside, our special blessing multiplied. ~Author Unknown

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb

Life is two-riffic with twins. ~Author Unknown

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849

...So we grew together
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem...
~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Note: This isn't actually about twins)

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:
I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
~William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

Truth Quotes

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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~Aldous Huxley

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark
But even so, wise dogs don't bark.
Only mongrels make it hard
For the milkman to come up the yard.
~Christopher Morley, Dogs Don't Bark at the Milkman

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart. ~Peter Altenberg

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~William James

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found. ~W. MacNeile Dixon

There is no god higher than truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ~Rebecca West

Trust Quotes ii

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. ~Henry David Thoreau

Our distrust is very expensive. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. ~Frank Crane

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ~Henry L. Stimson

We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~Booker T. Washington

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. ~Troy Kennedy-Martin, The Italian Job

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. ~Nicolas Walter, About Anarchism

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~Charles Krauthammer

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder

Trees Quotes

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~Henry David Thoreau

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. ~Denise Levertov

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ~Henry David Thoreau

The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them He writes in shining green
Across the world His thoughts serene.
~Leonora Speyer

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~John Muir

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend,
Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Woodnotes"

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~Willa Cather, 1913

Travel Quotes ii

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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~Elizabeth Drew

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. ~Susan Heller

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. ~Lord Dunsany

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~Lin Yutang

Time Quotes ii

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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Economy," Walden, 1854

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis, Money

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~Author Unknown

Thrift Quotes

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Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character. ~S.W. Straus

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. ~Seneca

Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today. ~Francis H. Sisson

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. ~Lord Rosebery

The thrift that does not make a man charitable sours into avarice. ~M.W. Harrison

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. ~Calvin Coolidge

A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need. ~Sidney Carroll, A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Be thrifty, but not covetous. ~George Herbert

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. ~Agesilaus

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. ~John D. Rockefeller

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? ~Cicero

Thinking Quotes

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~Voltaire

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~Carl G. Jung

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~Winnie the Pooh

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ~Soren Kierkegaard

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ~John F. Kennedy

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ~Will Durant

Tennis Quotes

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Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. ~Jacques Barzun

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. ~Yannick Noah

Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything. ~Author Unknown

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. ~Russell Lynes

Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed. ~Billie Jean King

Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. ~Virginia Graham, Say Please, 1949

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ~Hugo L. Black

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. ~Rod Laver

The serve was invented so that the net could play. ~Bill Cosby

Though your game is hardly the best
You can fray your opponent's nerves
By methodically bouncing the ball
At least ten times before your serves.
~Arnold J. Zarett

Television Quotes

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All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~Nicholas Johnson

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don't work, does it? ~Leo Anthony Gallagher

How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? ~Rod Serling, quoted in Submitted for Your Approval, Public Broadcasting Station, 1995

Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. ~Author Unknown

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ~Ann Landers

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. ~Author Unknown

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. ~George Bush

If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. ~Jerome Singer

Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. ~Ernie Kovacs

Telephone Quotes

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The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone. ~Bill DeWitt, 1972

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ~Fran Lebowitz

Middle age: When you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash

I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! ~Author Unknown

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone. ~Henry Miller

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ~Ambrose Bierce

A woman is a person who reaches for a chair when she answers the telephone. ~Milton Wright

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine

Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness. ~Terri Guillemets

Some one invented the telephone,
And interrupted a nation's slumbers,
Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
~Ogden Nash, Look What You Did, Christopher

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. ~Brent Musburger

Teenagers Quotes

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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ~Quentin Crisp

Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ~Laurence J. Peter

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Age and Death," Afterthoughts, 1931

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ~Al Bernstein

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. ~Larry Lujack

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ~Erma Bombeck

Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. ~Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies

Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals. ~Unknown high school principal

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ~Doug Larson

Technology Quotes ii

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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ~Mark Kennedy

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~Alan M. Eddison

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ~Albert Einstein

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ~Richard P. Feynman

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. ~Jean Arp

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ~Aldous Huxley

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. ~Max Frisch

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? ~Al Boliska

Team Work Quotes

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Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~Author Unknown

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry. ~Author Unknown

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~Vince Lombardi

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ~Margaret Carty

Many hands make light work. ~John Heywood

One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites. ~Jin Kwon

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~Virginia Burden

Teachers Quotes

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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. ~Donald D. Quinn

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin

Tra Quotes

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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"

Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yiheng

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~Author Unknown

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. ~Bernard-Paul Heroux

Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. ~Author Unknown

If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you. ~Gladstone, 1865

We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
~Rudyard Kipling

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. ~Hilaire Belloc

Tea is a cup of life. ~Author Unknown

Tax Quotes

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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. ~Will Rogers

When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen

Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. ~Gerald Barzan

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. ~Ronald Reagan

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. ~Laurence J. Peter

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ~Arthur Godfrey

The United States has a system of taxation by confession. ~Hugo Black

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? ~Peg Bracken

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. ~Will Rogers

Tattoo Quotes

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The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. ~Author Unknown

The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different. ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. ~V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives

For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference. ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000

There is no "underground" community, no dark den of drunken sailors initiating themselves into manhood via cheap, ill-conceived exercises in bodily perforation; it's just a group of people who delight in using their bodies as billboards. ~Joanne McCubrey, "Walking Art: Tattoos," Mountain Democrat Weekend magazine, 9 February 1990

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. ~Jack London

Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor. ~Billy Elmer

You may lose your most valuable property through misfortune in various ways. You may lose your house, your wife and other treasures. But of your moko, you cannot be deprived except by death. It will be your ornament and companion until your last day. ~Netana Whakaari of Waimana

Swimming Quotes

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Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it. ~Author Unknown

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ~Abraham Maslow

The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. ~Aleksandr Popov

H2O: two parts Heart and one part Obsession. ~Author Unknown

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb

Chlorine is my perfume. ~Author Unknown

If the world was flat I'd probably swim off it. ~Author Unknown

It's a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim. ~Author Unknown

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? ~Steven Wright

Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim. ~Author Unknown

Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim? ~Author Unknown

What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn. ~Author Unknown

Seven days of no swimming makes one weak. ~Author Unknown

Summer Quotes

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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~Aldo Leopold

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
~John Vance Cheney

Success Quotes ii

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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown

Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen

As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~Gene Fowler

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin

I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost

Stress Quotes

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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. ~Elbert Hubbard

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. ~Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ~Richard Carlson

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~Margaret Fuller

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. ~Lily Tomlin

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Give your stress wings and let it fly away. ~Terri Guillemets

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

Statistics Quotes

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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook

98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. ~Bobby Bragan, 1963

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth. ~Author Unknown

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. ~Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ~Author Unknown

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. ~Andrew Lang

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. ~Theodor Billroth

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt

Benefits of Laughing

2009-09-30T03:13:00.001-07:00

Benefits of Laughing

Everyday you must be laughing for different reasons. Have you ever
noticed, how you feel relaxed after laughing? There are a number of
health benefits of laughing and that's why, laughter is stated to be
the best medicine.

Every person laughs several times a day for different reasons - after
hearing a joke, watching a comedy movie or reading a comic book. Humor
is one of the important senses that human being is blessed with.
Laughing expresses a feeling of happiness. Humor and laughter are
contagious and they cause a cumulative effect of amusement and joy. In
addition, they offer a number of positive health benefits.

Laughter makes it easier for us to cope with different challenges in
life. It improves and strengthens our immune system and helps prevent
a number of diseases. Laughter therapy can be used to cure several
diseases such as hypertension, ulcers, arthritis, stroke, diabetes and
even heart diseases. It offers good relaxation and helps you relieve
stress and depression. Read on to know about benefits of laughing in
detail.

Benefits of Laughing

Laughing is not just related to facial expressions, but it causes a
number of chemical changes within the body. Good hearty laughter helps
release enzymes and hormones that are helpful for normal functioning
of various organs. This is due to a connection between laughing and
stimulation of brain and different glands. Laughter enhances the body
to release natural antihistamines. It also activates T-cells, a
natural anti-biotic produced in the body. It helps boost the immune
system and fight infections. It prevents numerous diseases by
strengthening the immune system.

Laughter reduces the levels of certain hormones, namely cortisol,
growth hormone, epinephrine and dopac, which are associated with
stress response. Thus it helps relieve stress, depression, anxiety,
grief, anger and irritation. Laughing also decreases pain by releasing
a hormone, endorphins. It improves our attentiveness, pulse and heart
rate.

Laughing is proven to be very beneficial for the people suffering from
hypertension. It helps lower the blood pressure to normal. Laughing
causes deeper breathing and increase in blood flow, due to which
oxygen and essential nutrients are supplied to all body parts.

Laughter is a good workout for respiratory, abdominal, leg, back and
facial muscles. It tones intestinal functioning, massages abdominal
organs and strengthens abdominal muscles. This activity is
advantageous for digestion as well as absorption. Laughter also helps
burn calories and is beneficial for weight loss.

In addition to physical health benefits, laughing offers several
psychological health benefits. It boosts self-confidence and gives
mental strength to cope with conflicts and challenges in life. It also
helps us come out of anxiety and depression. It improves out mental
health and makes us forget all the tensions in our daily busy lives.

Laughing enhances our ability to connect with others. It also causes a
number of behavioral changes. It makes us energized and increases our
interest in daily activities.

Laughing also offers many social benefits. A person with a smiling
face is always popular amongst a group. It lessens the distance
between two individuals and brings them together. It increases healthy
communication with others.

Laughter positively affects many aspects of your life, including your
health, well-being and energy, leading to a healthy, quality life. So
always smile, it improves your face value too.
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Seven Deadly Enemies That Stop You From Reaching Your Goals

2009-09-30T03:12:00.001-07:00

Seven Deadly Enemies That Stop You From Reaching Your Goals

What prevents your from achieving your goals? Find out all about the
enemies of personal goal setting!

Enlarge ImageEverybody on this planet has enemies, rivals and foes.
Call them any way you like, but nevertheless they exist, chasing you
at every step you make. Nobody knows where they come from, but the
fact of their existence was detected on the planet and still nobody
knows completely the effective remedy from them. They spoil our lives;
put the spokes in our wheel, making tricky endeavors to distract us.
The biggest nuisance they cause is that they prevent us from reaching
success in life. The only way out of this situation is to disclose
them and to wipe them out once and for all.

You'll be surprised to know that those enemies live within you.

Our greatest enemies, whom we must chiefly combat live inside of us.
So, what are those crafty enemies that hold us back from reaching our
goals?

7 Deadly Enemies of Your Goals

Enemy #1
For 33 percents of people it is shortage of time. They claim that 24
hours are always not enough for everything they have planned. Time is
of the essence, they say. And they try their best with 24 hours and
manage their time vary carefully, but in any case they constantly feel
the lack of time. Time is an illness causing fatigue.

Enemy #2
For 11 percents it is lack of motivation. These people feel that they
don't achieve their goal, because they don't know exactly why they are
aiming at it. As a result, they don't know how to persuade their mind
to achieve that goal. More often these people are satisfied with small
achievements.

Enemy #3
For other 33 percents of people it is lack of persistence. These
people just go with the stream, because they lack decisiveness and
perseverance. They can't get over the difficulties, they easily give
up and refuse from their dreams.

Enemy #4
For 22 percents the major enemy is their uncertainty. They don't know
what their goals are. These people just don't know what they want to
get from this life. Their life is one big question-mark for them.

Enemy #5
For some people it is fear, because they afraid to fail and get
frustrated. They get angry with themselves when they don't fulfill
their goals.

Enemy #6
For other people it is laziness. These people just idle and don't want
to make any effort to achieve their goals.

Enemy #7
Finally, for some people it is a lack of opportunity. Some people are
deprived of the opportunity to exhibit their talents and gifts.
Success is people-dependent factor. Often most of aspiring people are
driven away form their dreams on account of opportunity factors.

A common enemy of ours is the surrounding: jealous and envy people who
put obstacles on our way to success.

Now you know your enemies by their faces, so it will be easier for you
to fight against them.
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Funny Phrases

2009-09-30T03:11:00.001-07:00

Funny Phrases

It is very difficult to have a comic timing that can liven up a party.
It requires presence of mind and a whole lot of funny phrases. Hoping
that you have been blessed with good presence of minds, here are some
phrases that you can use to make someone laugh…

Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

If you are born ugly blame your parents, if you died ugly blame your doctor.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...

Every morning is the dawn of a new error.

When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

I married "Miss Right". Unfortunately, I didn't know that her first
name was "Always".

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

I am planning to be more spontaneous in the future.

Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more.

They've got a picture of her at the hospital - it saves using the stomach pump

There is an exception to every rule, except this one.

The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.

Love is photogenic, It needs darkness to develop.

When you are working late, the boss will never be around. When you are
surfing the net the boss will always drop by.

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Funny Phrases

2009-09-30T03:07:00.001-07:00

Funny Phrases

Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

If you are born ugly blame your parents, if you died ugly blame your doctor.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...

Every morning is the dawn of a new error.

When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

I married "Miss Right". Unfortunately, I didn't know that her first
name was "Always".

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

I am planning to be more spontaneous in the future.

Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more.

They've got a picture of her at the hospital - it saves using the stomach pump

There is an exception to every rule, except this one.

The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.

Love is photogenic, It needs darkness to develop.

When you are working late, the boss will never be around. When you are
surfing the net the boss will always drop by.

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Funny Slogans

2009-09-30T03:06:00.001-07:00

Funny Slogans

Here are some slogans that you can use on T-Shirts or bumper stickers
that is sure to bring a smile on the lips of the person reading the
same:

If there is no god, who pops up the next kleenex?

Jesus saves sinners and redeems them for cash and valuable prizes.

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Five days a week my body is a temple. The other two it's an amusement park.

People who say you can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

I am a Nobody. Nobody is Perfect. Therefore I am Perfect.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If Noah had been smart he would have swatted those two flies.

I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow
is not looking good either.

Reality is only an illusion that occurs due to a lack of alcohol.

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

How come we have to choose from just 2 persons for president, and 50
for Miss America?

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.

Ninety-nine percent of all lawyers give the rest a bad name.

The more I learn about terrorism, the more I understand the phone company.

Ham and Eggs: A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig.

I want to die while asleep like my grandfather, not screaming in
terror like the passengers in his car.

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General Humorous Quotes

2009-09-30T03:05:00.001-07:00

General Humorous Quotes:

"I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it
made my landlord mad as hell." - Garry Shandling

"Humor is also a way of saying something serious." - T S Eliot

"Time is God's way to keep everything from happening at once."- James Brown

"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere
else!"-Yogi Berra

"Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing." - Robert Benchley

"I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn"t true." -
Katherine Hepburn

"When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick."- George Burns

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that
perhaps they're too old to do it."- Anne Bancroft

"Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only
three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote
control.."- Diana Jordan.

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." - Gloria Steinem
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Humorous Quotes on Alcoholism

2009-09-30T03:04:00.001-07:00

Humorous Quotes on Alcoholism:

"I'm not as think as you drunk I am." - Mega Jones

"The best beer in the world, is the open bottle in your hand!" - Danny Jansen

"Irish coffee is the perfect breakfast because it contains all four
adult food groups: fat, sugar, caffeine and alcohol." - Anonymous

"It was a woman who drove me to drink and I never got the chance to
thank her." - W.C. Fields

"Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you
will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill

"Beauty lies in the eye of the beer holder." – Anonymous

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." - Henny Youngman.

"I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than
gin before breakfast." - WC Fields
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Humorous Quotes on Age

2009-09-30T03:03:00.001-07:00

Humorous Quotes on Age:

"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the
cake." – Bob Hope

"I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow." -
Billy Connolly

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so
calculating." - Oscar Wilde

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that
it's such a nice change from being young."- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"Middle Age is when your age starts to show around your middle" – Bob Hope

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it
doesn't matter." - Jack Benny

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IMIGENURANO VIII

2007-11-16T06:52:00.002-08:00

Buhoro buhoro nirwo rugendo.
Burya mukaso ntaba ari nyoko.
Amenyo ni amabuye.
Urugiye kera ruhinyuza intwari.
Umugore w' umupfu arikirigita agaseka.
Umwana w' undi abishya inkonda.
Umwana w' umuja akubitirwa ku mazi nyina yavomye.
Umwana w' umwingingano umuha amata akaruka amaraso.
Umwanzi agucira akobo Imana igucira akanzu.
Umwera uturutse ibukuru ukwira hose.
Umwijuto w' ikinonko ugirango imvura ntizagwa.
Unera agati kikubiranyije wahaguruka kakayagutera.
Uzangaye guhera ntuzangaye gutinda.
Upfuye akuruta niyo mugeze ikuzimu arakuruta.
Uri ibuzimu azunguza ajyana iwabo.
Uruboza ruruta ururumbya.
Umwana umuhana avayo ntumuhana ajyayo.
Uruciye mu nsi ntamenya ikiruri imbere.
Usurana umujinya ukinera.
Usuze agirwa no kunutsa.
Usuzugura agatuba ka mucyeba kakagutwara umugabo.
Utabusya abwita ubumera.
Utaganiriye na se ntamenya icyo sekuru yavuze.
Utagera ibwami abeshywa byinshi.
Utagira nyirasenge arisenga.
Utaranigwa agaramye agirango ijuru riri bugufi.
Utariye iby' upfuye arya iby' ugiye.
Uwenze uw' undi yiga gusya.
Uvuze ko nyir' urugo yapfuye si we uba amwishe.
Ushaka inka aryama nka zo.
Uwanze kwumva ntiyanze kubona.
Uwanze kwumvira se na nyina yumvira ijeri.
Uwanga gutenguhwa atuma mukuru.
Uwanga amazimwe abandwa habona.
Utazi akaraye i Fumbwe araza ifu.
Uwabike ntasaba arasumbakaza.
Utazi ikibabaje umugabo amutuka gushahurwa.
Utuma abahutu atuma benshi.
Umutwe umwe wifasha gusara, ntiwifasha gutekereza.
Umwana apfira mu iterura.
Umwana ni umutware.
Umwambari w' umwana agenda nka se.
Umuntu asinda akariho.
Wanga kwenda umuja bugacya atwite.
Uwiba ahetse aba abwiriza uwo mu mugongo.
Uwicishije inkware ukwaha ahora akumanitse.
Uwifuje umugisha w' undi annya ibuye.
Uwigize igitebo ayora ivu.
Uwitonze akama ishashi.
Uwitumiye yitwaza intebe.
Uwiyishe ntaririrwa.
Uwo uzaheka ntumwicisha urume.
Uwububa abonwa n' uhagaze.
Uyambariza ku ziko ikagusiga ivu.
Uzabona uri i Rwanda. Gusobanura
Uzapfa akakurushya ntakagucure.
Usenya urwe umutiza umuhoro.
Wanga gucyura ihene hakibona bwakwira ugahebeba nka yo.
Umujinya w' imbwa ushirira mu kuzunguza umurizo.
Umukobwa aba umwe agatukisha bose.
Umukobwa wabuze umuranga yaheze mwa nyina.
Umukobwa wahiriwe yibwira ko akirusha abandi.
Umukobwa w' ubwira asambana asabwa.
Umukunnyi aruhira umuswezi.
Umukunnyi mutindi akunira impare.
Umukwe w' isoni ahera mu mfuruka.
Umwana umwe si umuryango.
Umuruho ntiwabira habira nyirawo.
Ushaka kugishira ipfa aracyibyarira.
Umusaza uhaze akina n' imyenge y' inzu.
Umusazi arasara akagwa ku ijambo.
Umusazi asiga akamwirukana, ntasiga akamwirukamo.
Umushumba yakubise undi ati: genda shahu turacyaragiranye.
Umutanyu w' ingoma uruta ihundo rizima.
Umutego mutindi wica nyirawo.
Umutima muhanano ntiwuzura igituza.
Umutima usobetse amaganya ntusobanura amagambo.
Umutware yicarira intebe undi ayibajisha.
Nta byera ngo de.
Nta gahora gahanze.
Nta giti kibura inyoni ikigwaho.
Nta gufwa ry' umusundi rirenzwa urugo.
Nta kabura imvano.
Nta mubi wisize.

IMIGENURANO VII

2007-11-16T06:52:00.001-08:00

Umwana murizi ntakurwa urutozi.
Urugo rwarazwe imishino umwana avukana itanu.
Urugo rw' undi ruribwamo ntirusegetwamo.
Uruhahirwa na babiri iyo rutazanye ibinyoro ruzana mburugu.
Uruka ntafata uhitwa.
Uruliye abandi ntirukwibagiwe.
Uruma isi arahuha.
Urupfu rw' imbwa ni inyama.
Urutugu ntirukura ngo rurenge ijosi.
Urushyize kera ruhinyuza intwari.
Urwishe ya nka ruracyayirimo.
Urwishigishiye ararusoma.
Usanze nyina ashaje avuga ko inka za se zapfuye ubusa.
Useka usuze bwacya ukannya.
Urucira mukaso rugatwara nyoko.
Umunyabukorikori yirutse ku bimusiga, yihisha ibimubona, yihishurira ibyapfuye.
Umugore w' umusaza ntaherekeza urwenya.
Nta baronkera rimwe nk' abaca imisigati.
Umuhanga wo kurya arara akarabye.
Nari umugabo ntihabwa intebe.
Amaso y' igikeri ntabuza umuvomyi kuvoma.
Amasunzu si amasaka.
Amata make amena menshi.
Amata y' umukobwa aba imbere.
Amavuta y' umugabo ni amuraye ku mubiri.
Iyo amazi abaye make aharirwa impfizi.
Amazi arashyuha ariko ntiyibagirwa iwabo wa mbeho.
Amirariro atera amimaro.
Findi findi irutwa na so araroga.
Ayo ubwira umucuzi si yo ubwira umucuzikazi.
Igiti kigororwa kikiri gito.
Bagarira yose ntuzi irizera.
Baranyerera yaguye Jinja.
Mujinya wa Nyamwijinya yasanze umugore we yasambanye aragaca.
Barihima ni mwene Mujinya.
Bavuga ibyigondoye umuhoro ukarakara.
Batutira henshi ntibazamenya iyo bataye imihoro.
Bene amazuru meza ntibaburana n' ibya nyuma.
Bene imitsima bayitsimbarayeho.
Birabe ibyuya ntibibe amaraso.
Bucya bucyana ayandi.
Bucya bwitwa ejo.

IMIGENURANO VI

2007-11-16T06:51:00.002-08:00

Agatinze kazaryoha ni agatuba k' uruhinja.
Agatinze kazaza ni amenyo ya ruguru.
Ahari ubuhoro umuhoro urogosha.
Aho wisigiye siho uhurira na muramu wawe.
Ibirenge bijya imbu kujya imbere.
Amagara ntaguranwa amagana.
Gahimandyadya na Kajogora baranywanye.
Gashiramazizi ka Ntibazirikana rubanda rushishwa nabi.
Gesa ubw' iyo ubwo ino ntiburera.
Gira so yiturwa indi.
Gishira ibyara ntigishira amazi.
Gusera intanyurwa ni ugusesa.
Gushaka ni ugushobora.
Hasura uwariye.
Hobe hobe itera ibinyoro.
Ibanga ni irya babiri.
Ibihanga bibili ntibitekwa mu nkono imwe.
Byabara usara.
Ibihembe by' intama ntawe umenya iyo bikura bigana.
Abagira iyo bajya baragenda.
Abagiye inama Imana irabasanga.
Abagore bagira inzara ntibagira inzigo.
Abagore baragwira.
Abakingiranye ingabo ntibakingirana inyegamo.
Iyo usanze abavandimwe bavumbitse akarenge uvanamo akawe.
Aberekeranye ntibabura kwendana.
Abwirwa benshi akumva bene yo.
Aho inkoko yasheshe ihata ibaba.
Aho ihene yonnye ihoramo.
Amage arisha umugabo ikivuza.
Agahwa kari ku wundi karahandurika.
Ifuni ibagara ubucuti ni akarenge.
Agakono gashaje niko karyoshya imboga.
Agakungu gakuna imbwa.
Agakungu iyo gashize agashino kayora ivu.
Agapfa kaburiwe ni impongo.
Agapfundikiye gatera amatsiko.
Agasaza kamwera akandi kazakamwa?
Agashyize kera gahinyuza intwari.
Aho ibyago byaje ibihaha bica umuhoro.
Akazu gato ni ko karya ubwatsi.
Akebo kajya iwa Mugarura.
Akeza karigura.
Akicaro keza kikuramo umwana uzi ubwenge.
Akiziritse ku muhoro gasiga kawuciye.
Ako iminsi iteruye ntikajya karemera.
Ak' imuhana kaza imvura ihise.
Amaboko atareshya ntaramukanya.
Amabya y' undi aryohera umugeri.
Amacumu y' inda ntashira igorora.
Amafuti y' umugabo nibwo buryo bwe.
Amagambo atagira mukuru arumba ari indaro.
Icyo umutima ushaka, amata aguranwa itabi.
Akanwa kariye ntiwumve kavuza induru ntiwumve.
Agahinda k' inkoko kamenywa n' inkike yatoyemo.
Ababiri bajya inama baruta umunani urasana.
Abagabo bararya imbwa zikishyura.
Abagira amenyo baraseka.
Abagira inyonjo bagira ibirori.
Isuka ibagara ubucuti ni akarenge.
Isuli isambira byinshi igasohoza bike.
Ivu rihoze niryo ryotsa inzu.
Inkovu icitse irushya abavuzi.
Inyamibwa y' imboro ni ishyutwe.
Akatari amagara karahahwa.
Amagara araseseka ntayorwa.
Aho umutindi yanitse ntiriva.
Aho umwaga utari uruhu rw' urukwavu rwisasira batanu.
Aho ujishe igisabo ntuhatera ibuye.
Akababaje ababiri karabateranya.
Akababaje umutima kazindura amaguru.
Akabaye icwende ntikoga.
Akabuno karusha isuka guca inshuro.
Akabuno ntigasa n' akakabyara gasa nako birarana.
Akagabo gahimba akandi kataraza.
Akaje karemerwa.
Akanyoni katagurutse ntikamenya iyo bweze.
Aho imbwa ikubitiwe irahagaruka.
Akaryoshye ntikariwe mu rw' undi.
Inkunguzi y' inkware ishoka agaca kayireba.
Icyizere cyiraza amasinde.
Inshuti ziba nyinshi, iyo mwambaranye ubusa iraguma.
Insina ngufi ntawe ntawe utayicaho ikoma.
Intamenya y' umugabo irira ku muziro.
Intasi y' impyisi yabira maka.
Intege nke zitera imico myiza.
Intenge itari iyawe uratoboroza.
Inyamaswa idakenga yicwa n' umututizi.
Iyimiye mu gisigati ibarirwa bose.
Inyongera mbi ni imisuha.
Iyihuse ibyara ibihumye.
Inzigo y' imboro ihozwa indi.
Inzira ntibwira umugenzi.

IMIGENURANO V

2007-11-16T06:51:00.001-08:00

Ugusumba arakumanurira.
Udashinga ntabyina.
Uguhiga ubutwari muratabarana.
Uguhaye akubonye arutwa n' uguhaye akuzirikanye.
Ugiciye inkondo siwe ugicundamo.
Ugaya ibye abyibiramo.
Ugaburira uwijuse bararwana.
Ufinura itari iye ageza ku mukondo.
Uguhishe ko akwanga umuhisha ko ubizi.
Iyo abanzi babaye benshi Imana iba mwene nyoko.
Abantu bibuka imana iyo amakuba yababanye menshi.
Umunywanyi wa benshi apfa akererewe.
Bagarira yose.
Uratinda ngo ukumburwe, ugasanga waribagiranye.
Wabanguka ngo ushimwe, ugasanga umugayo wagutanzeyo.
Ntawe uneza rubanda.
Akiziritse ku mugozi gashirwa kawuciye.
Ugushungura ntakuburamo inkumbi.
Umwijuto w'ikinonko ugira ngo imvura ntizagwa.
Uko umugabo aguye siko amabya ameneka.

Akagabo gahimba akandi kataraza.
Uwigize igihuru anebwamo
Burya si buno.
Ibisa birasabirana.
Ibitwenge by' inkoko bishirira mu kwayura.
Ibuguma ntishobora isibo.
Ibuguma y' umushino imira imikangara itanu.
Ibuye ryagaragaye ntiryica isuka.
Ibyagiye kera ibyagurukana irago.
Ibyaye ikiboze irakirigata.
Iby' ejo bibara ab' ejo.
Iby' ihaha birushya ihambira.
Iby' isi ni amabanga.
Nsabira nsome irutwa n' insangirano.
Icyo imbwa yanze umanika aho ireba.
Nshimwe y' umukobwa ikobora injuma.
Ibihe biha ibindi.
Babona zireresa amabya bakagira ngo zimya sose.
Amaherezo y' inzira ni mu nzu.
Amareshya mugeni siyo amutunga.
Amarira y' umugabo atemba ajya mu nda.
Amashyi make yimisha umwana impengeri.
Agati gateretswe n' Imana ntigahungabanywa n' umuyaga.

IMIGENURANO IV

2007-11-16T06:50:00.002-08:00

Iyihuse ibyara ibihumye.
Inzigo y' imboro ihozwa indi.
Inzira ntibwira umugenzi.
Inzu y' umwanzi uyo uvanyeho n' isakamburiro ugira uti ahiii.
Irya mukuru riratinda ariko ntirihera.
Isari iyo yasumbye isesemi umugabo asubira ku cyo yangaga.
Isazi yaswitse urutare iti: birabe ntangare ntanga yanjye.
Isazi y' ubute ntirya igisebe.
Ishyano rigwira nyirumugore umwe.
Inkururarusya iswika nyirasenge.
Karabaye ntiyendwa.
Iguye ntayo itayigera ihembe.
Kora ndebe iruta vuga numve.
Kugenda bitera kubona.
Kugera kure siko gupfa.
Kurya bike ni ukubikena.
Kuvuga menshi siko kuyamara.
Kuzinduka kwa rusake ntikwayibujije kunnya mu nzu.
Ribara uwariraye.
Mpana umupfu, yananira nkamwoshya.
Mukuru w' ijambo ni irindi.
Murankorere ibindi nzivomera.
Na nyina w' undi abyara umuhungu.
N' izibika zari amagi.
Kami ka muntu ni umutima we.
Inyoni iguruka yisunze agati.
Inkunzi y' imiryango icika inkangu mu nnyo.
Inkuru mbarirano iratuba.
Inkururabutindi ihakwa n' uhanyaze.
Iminsi yira ari myinshi igahimwa n' umwe.
Iminsi y' umujura ni mirongo ine.
Impamba itazakugeza i Kigali uyirira ku Ruyenzi.
Inshakura irongorwa kabiri.
Impfizi ntiyimirwa.
Imfura zisangira amata ntizisangira amaraso.
Impyisi barayibwiye bati amayira arafunze, iti: nari nsanzwe ngenda nijoro.
Indyarya ihimwa n'indyamirizi.
Iminsi iteka inzovu mu rwabya.
Kitirirwa umwana kagatera nyina akabondo.
Iyakitse ntawe utayikora mu nda.
Iyaseseye ntiyugururirwa.
Iyo agashungo gashize, agashino kayora ivu.
Iyo butarira mukaso aba nyoko.
Iyo inzovu yerekeye hirya uyipfura urutsinga
Iyo inzovu zirwanye, ibyatsi birahababarira.
Iyo ngira ntya yari ijambo ni uko yaje nyuma.
Iyo nyokobukwe akunze ukurura ihururu.
Iyo urugo rwarazwe imishino, umwana w' umukobwa avukana itanu.
Iyo usanze imbwa yuriye igiti, uhita ubaza uwayurije.
Kabutindi itera umugabo kwikuruza.
Inkokokazi iteteza nk' izindi bati ngiyo kanwa kabi.
Inkoni ikubise mukeba uyirenza urugo.
Inkoni ivuna igufwa ntivuna ingeso.
Ingwe ntiyari izi gufata ijosi yarabwirijwe.
Umuntu yigishwa imico mibi n'abandi.
iyo umuntu agukoreye nabi abakwigishije
Iminsi irasa ariko ntihwana. Gusobanura
Ihene bayita mweru ikirirwa itarishije.
Ihene mbi ntuyizirika ho iyawe.
Ihiye nabi uyima ifu.

IMIGENURANO III

2007-11-16T06:50:00.001-08:00

Ufite umusegura avuna ijosi

Abagira iyo bajya baragenda.
Akaboro gato karuta amabya masa.
Ubusabusa buruta ubusa
Iguguna umuhini yototera isuka.
Ukubise imbwa aba ashaka sebuja.

Akaburiye mu isiza ntikabonekera mu isakara.
Igiti kigororwa kikiri gito.
Ugiye iburyasazi azirya mbisi.

Inkotsa ivuga nk' izindi bakayamagana.
Imbwa yiganye inka kunnya mu rugo irabizira.

Imirimo ibiri yananiye impyisi.

Indambirwa y' iminsi yenda umurwayi.

Inkunzi y' imiryango ikobora rugongo.

Inda nini yishe ukuze.
Ubusambo ni bubi.
Akarenze umunwa karushya ihamagara.

Imburagihana yabuze gihamba.
Uwanze kumva ntiyanze no kubona.
Ubyinana na mucyeba ntahumbya.

Ikinyoni kigurutse kitavuze bacyita igishwi.

Igiti cyiswe umwana ntigicanwa.
Kirazira kugirira umwana nabi.
Inkono ntihira ikibatsi ihira ikibariro.
Inkono ihira igihe, n'aho wacanira ute.
Ijambo ribi rivana imboro mu gituba.

Inda y' umwanzi uyiha amata ikaruka amaraso.

Imana ihora ihoze.

Ubusabusa buruta ubusa.
Ubushiki ni uburibwa.
Ubushyitsi buribwa ni muramu w' umuntu.
Ubutegetsi si ubukonde.
Ubwenge burarahurwa.
Ubwenge buza ubujiji buhise.
Akabikora kabizi gateka imboga karitse.
Ubwiza bw' intobo ntibuyibuza kurura.
Uhima inda arayirariza.
Ubyina iwabo arasebwa.
Ucira injiji amarenga amara ibinonko.
Ugusuriye ntumusurire akwita ikibura nnyo.
Uhiga ubutwari n' umugore aragarama.
Uhaze ikivuge ntabura ikivugo.
Ubwira umuzi ntavunika.
Uhagarikiwe n' ingwe aravoma.
Ucyenze rimwe ntaba akimaze.
Ugusuriye ntumwishyure akwita akarondwe.
Ugusumba arakumanurira.
Udashinga ntabyina.

IMIGENURANO II

2007-11-16T06:48:00.000-08:00

Nta mugabo umwe.
Nta mugani uva ku busa.
Nta muheza w' iby' isi.
Ntugahandwe ku rurimi ikirenge
Ubuto bw' isha ntibusobanura inzara.
Nta mwinjira ugira ijambo.
Nta mwiza wabuze inenge, na nyirahuku igira amabinga.
Nta nkokokazi ibika isake ihari.
Nta nkumi yigaya.
Nta nyama itarya umutsima.
Nta wanga umuruho ashyukwa.
Ntawe uhisha uwo ahishaho.
Ntawe urata inkovu z' imiringa.
Ntawe uribara nk' umuto waribonye.
Ntawe usesa uwo acyota.
Ntawe uta akanyaga atagahambuye.
Ntawe uyoberwa umwibye, ahubwo ayoberwa aho amuhishe.
Nta munyagara w' inyama.
Ukuri kunyura mu ziko ntigushye.
Uhishira umurozi akakumaraho abana.
Uburere buruta ubuvuke.
Ukize baraza. Gusobanura
Ubunwa bwagusomeye umugabo burakwongorera ntiwumve.
Ujya gutera uburezi arabwibanza.
Ujya kugaya impundu z' urukwavu abanza kureba imisaya ziturukamo.
Ukandagira agahungu ntahonyora.
Ukize ubusore arabubagira.
Uko umugabo aguye si ko amabya ameneka.
Ukorora acira aba agabanya.
Ukubarira akubeshya agira ati:nupfa tuzajyana.
Ukubise imbwa aba ashaka shebuja.
Uhisha mu nda imbwa ntimwiba.
Ukuri gushirira mu biganiro.
Uhonga umwanzi amara inka.
Ukuri ntikwica umutumirano.
Ukurushije umugore akurusha urugo.
Ukwanga atiretse arakubwira ati: cyo turwane.
Umanika agati wicaye wajya kukamanura ugahagarara.
Umubyeyi gito aremaza umwana igituba.
Umugabo arigira yakwibura agapfa.
Umugabo mbwa anyagiranwa n' abandi ati jye naboze.
Umugabo umwe agerwa kuri nyina.
Umugani ugana akariho.
Umugore bamukubitiye gusambana ati: nasekwa nutarakimeze.
Umugore ni nyampiga.
Umugore ni umutima w' urugo.
Umugore ni uw' umuryango.
Ukubwiye ubusa umusubiza ubundi.
Ubwiza bw' umukobwa ntibwamubujije kuruha.
Uburere bwiza bucisha imfura mu mwijima.
Uburo bwinshi ntibugira umusururu.
Ubusa burimara.

Ubusabusa buruta ubusa.
Ubushiki ni uburibwa.
Ubushyitsi buribwa ni muramu w' umuntu.
Ubutegetsi si ubukonde.
Ubwenge burarahurwa.
Ubwenge buza ubujiji buhise.
Akabikora kabizi gateka imboga karitse.
Ubwiza bw' intobo ntibuyibuza kurura.
Uhima inda arayirariza.
Ubyina iwabo arasebwa.
Ucira injiji amarenga amara ibinonko.
Ugusuriye ntumusurire akwita ikibura nnyo.
Uhiga ubutwari n' umugore aragarama.
Uhaze ikivuge ntabura ikivugo.
Ubwira umuzi ntavunika.
Uhagarikiwe n' ingwe aravoma.
Ucyenze rimwe ntaba akimaze.
Ugusuriye ntumwishyure akwita akarondwe.

Inzu y' umwanzi uyo uvanyeho n' isakamburiro ugira uti ahiii.

2007-10-29T10:42:00.000-07:00

Inzu y' umwanzi uyo uvanyeho n' isakamburiro ugira uti ahiii.

Irya mukuru riratinda ariko ntirihera.

Isari iyo yasumbye isesemi umugabo asubira ku cyo yangaga.

Isazi yaswitse urutare iti: birabe ntangare ntanga yanjye.

Isazi y' ubute ntirya igisebe.

Ishyano rigwira nyirumugore umwe.

Inkururarusya iswika nyirasenge.

Karabaye ntiyendwa.

Iguye ntayo itayigera ihembe.

Kora ndebe iruta vuga numve.

Kugenda bitera kubona.

Kugera kure siko gupfa.

Kurya bike ni ukubikena.

Kuvuga menshi siko kuyamara.

Kuzinduka kwa rusake ntikwayibujije kunnya mu nzu.

Ribara uwariraye.

Mpana umupfu, yananira nkamwoshya.

Mukuru w' ijambo ni irindi.

Murankorere ibindi nzivomera.

Na nyina w' undi abyara umuhungu.

N' izibika zari amagi.

Kami ka muntu ni umutima we.

Inyoni iguruka yisunze agati.

Inkunzi y' imiryango icika inkangu mu nnyo.

Inkuru mbarirano iratuba.

Inkururabutindi ihakwa n' uhanyaze.

Iminsi yira ari myinshi igahimwa n' umwe.

Iminsi y' umujura ni mirongo ine.

Impamba itazakugeza i Kigali uyirira ku Ruyenzi.

Inshakura irongorwa kabiri.

Impfizi ntiyimirwa.

Imfura zisangira amata ntizisangira amaraso.

Impyisi barayibwiye bati amayira arafunze, iti: nari nsanzwe ngenda nijoro.

Indyarya ihimwa n'indyamirizi.

Iminsi iteka inzovu mu rwabya.

Kitirirwa umwana kagatera nyina akabondo.

Iyakitse ntawe utayikora mu nda.

Iyaseseye ntiyugururirwa.

Iyo agashungo gashize, agashino kayora ivu.

Iyo butarira mukaso aba nyoko.

Iyo inzovu yerekeye hirya uyipfura urutsinga

Iyo inzovu zirwanye, ibyatsi birahababarira.

Iyo ngira ntya yari ijambo ni uko yaje nyuma.

Iyo nyokobukwe akunze ukurura ihururu.

Iyo urugo rwarazwe imishino, umwana w' umukobwa avukana itanu.

Iyo usanze imbwa yuriye igiti, uhita ubaza uwayurije.

Kabutindi itera umugabo kwikuruza.

Inkokokazi iteteza nk' izindi bati ngiyo kanwa kabi.

Inkoni ikubise mukeba uyirenza urugo.

Inkoni ivuna igufwa ntivuna ingeso.

Ingwe ntiyari izi gufata ijosi yarabwirijwe.

Umuntu yigishwa imico mibi n'abandi.
iyo umuntu agukoreye nabi abakwigishije

Iminsi irasa ariko ntihwana.

Ihene bayita mweru ikirirwa itarishije.

Ihene mbi ntuyizirika ho iyawe.

Ihiye nabi uyima ifu.