Quote of the Day

[IQ]

_The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)

_Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, . . .
Author: William Shakespeare

_And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!
Author: William Shakespeare

_The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
Author: William Shakespeare

_[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . .
Author: William Shakespeare

_. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.
Author: Robert Southey

[indian_blues]

you are too greed IQ... i meant ur signature.

[IQ]

no i am not it is better for everybody. europeans separate church and state and what do we do mix mosque and state. europeans unite and become one country and what do they want us to do to divide. I think it is better for everybody if they unite.

[IQ]

_He'll find a way.
Author: Sir James Matthew Barrie

_The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
Author: Bishop George Berkeley

_Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Author: Edmund Burke

_He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratched.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)

_For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, Much farther off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)

_You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

_I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

_The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

_Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Author: John Dryden

_As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
Author: James Anthony Froude

_There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
Author: James Anthony Froude

_Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. - Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge),
Author: Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge)

_A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]
Author: George Herbert

_To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son habilete.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

_To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools to him that can handle them.
Author: John Gibson Lockhart

_A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he. "but every goose can."
Author: Plutarch

_One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]
Author: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)

_Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]
Author: Jean Paul Richter

_A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

_We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole.
Author: Sydney Smith

_Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
Author: Didacus Stella

_Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson

_The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]
Author: Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues

_They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)

_Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

_A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Author: Homer

_The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
Author: Arthur Guiterman

_If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant

_People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Author: Bob Edwards

_Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Author: Casey Stengel

_The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Author: Edward Gibbon

_Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Author: George Herbert

_If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
Author: Glenn Ford

_It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Author: Henry Ford

_From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Author: Karl Marx

_When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.
Author: Samuel Johnson

_'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.
Author: Thomas Fuller, M.D.

_There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
Author: Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

_Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Author: John Henry Newman

_Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte


_Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
Author: La Rochefoucauld


_Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson


_A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
Author: William Feather


_I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Author: Oscar Wilde


_Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Author: Francis Bacon


_Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Author: Lucille Ball


_The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains
Author: Ken Carey

_I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero


_The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Author: Thomas A. Edison


_The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus

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_There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Author: Douglas Everett

_Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes

_As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Author: James A. Froude

_Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith

_There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Author: Robert Half

_Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Author: Gail Hamilton

_It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Author: Elbert Hubbard

_The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Author: Orison Swett Marden

_Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Author: John G. Pollard

_Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
Author: Chinese Proverb

_If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Author: Robert Quillen

_If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Author: Theodor Reik

_Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Author: Anthony Robbins

_Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

_Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Author: George Bernard Shaw

_The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Author: Sir William Temple

_He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Author: Henry David Thoreau

_I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Author: Henry David Thoreau

_All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Author: Anonymous

_God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
Author: Anonymous

_Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues

_They are able because they think they are able.
Author: Virgil

_The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Author: Booker T. Washington

_We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Author: Stevie Wonder

_Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Author: John Wooden

_Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Author: M. Wren

_Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Author: John Henry Newman

_The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Author: Edward Gibbon

_There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Author: Elbert Hubbard

_Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Author: John G. Pollard

_Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Author: Bertrand Russell

_Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Author: Horace Walpole

_Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Author: Josh Billings

_From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Author: Edward Hand

_The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Author: Henry Ford

_Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Author: Sam Rayburn

_Everyone must row with the oars he has.
Author: English Proverb

_Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt

_They are able because they think they are able.
Author: Vergil

_Is it men or women who work the most in slaughterhouses? Is it men or women who are most involved in domestic battering? Is it men or women who commit the most rapes? Is it men or women who vote for the most executions? Is it men or women who promote war, vote for war, kill in war? Is it men or women who as 'talk show hosts' allow no talk? Is it men or women who are more often pedophiles? Is it men or women who torture lab animals more?
Author: O Anna Niemus

_The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi

[indian_blues]

no i am not it is better for everybody. europeans separate church and state and what do we do mix mosque and state. europeans unite and become one country and what do they want us to do to divide. I think it is better for everybody if they unite.

you are seeing it in religious prisim, Europe learnt its lessons from its past, but not middle east. European nation's are very tolerant to other religions but not middle east countries. you want to unite to becoz u r afraid of your existence.

[IQ]

first of all i am not afraid of anything second of all everything is possible. who would've thought 30 years ago iran would be an islamic country and veil be forced and islamic dress codes blah blah blah but before and in history we see iranians are very tolerant about other religions and it is possible to live together. everything is possible and nothing is impossible.

[indian_blues]

yes u r right.. no one would have expected 30 years ago a country like Iran could travel backwards in time. :P

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_If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Author: Gloria Steinem

_No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.
Author: Frederica Mathewes-Green

_The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
Author: Justice Harry A. Blackmun

_No woman has an abortion for fun.
Author: Joan Smith

_The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Author: Mother Teresa

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_Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly

_For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .
Author: Bible

_Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

_Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith

_Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

_In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Author: Ben Jonson

_Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
Author: Francis Kazincy

_What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
Author: Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (Mrs. Butler)

_But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]
Author: Thomas a Kempis

_Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)

_For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)

_Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

_Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.
Author: George Linley

_Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.
Author: George Linley

_For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. - William Julius Mickle,
Author: William Julius Mickle

_With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
Author: Thomas Moore

_Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.
Author: Alexander Pope

_Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
Author: Sextus Propertius

_Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

_Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.
Author: Lord John Russell (1)

_Source: in an address to the Electors of the City of London
I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
Author: William Shakespeare

_How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere!
Author: William Shakespeare

_All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
Author: William Shakespeare

_Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
Author: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)

_Source: Annales (bk. III, ch. 76), from the funeral of Junia
'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
Author: Frederick William Thomas

_Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Author: Francois de la Rochefoucauld

_Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant

_I dote on his very absence.
Author: William Shakespeare

_Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly

_The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
Author: Elizabeth E. Bowen

_Absence, that common cure of love.
Author: Miguel de Cervantes

_Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
Author: William Cowper

_Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
Author: Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

_Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
Author: John Dryden

_The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Author: Benjamin Franklin

_'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
Author: Charles Lam

_The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
Author: Charles Reade

_Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
Author: Walter S. Landor

_It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Author: Colette

_When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Author: Thomas à Kempis

_Is not absence death to those who love?
Author: Alexander Pope

_They are good that are away.
Author: Scottish Proverb

_The absent are always in the wrong.
Author: English Proverb

_No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Author: Aphra Behn

_A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
Author: William Butler Yeats

_The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Author: Benjamin Franklin

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_Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Author: St. Augustine

_I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
Author: Dean Martin

_The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Author: Dorothy Day

_Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Author: Charles Dickens

_All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Author: Epictetus

_Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
Author: Danish Proverb

_Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
Author: Horace Greeley

_"meat produced under current factory farming conditions (which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms of Jewish law.)"
Author: Rabbi David Rosen

_Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
Author: Art Margolis

_We all know there is blood in meat (USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).
Author: Charles Grassley

_The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Author: William Temple

_It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing.. must drive carefully in each others' corridors.
Author: O Anna Niemus

_Reborn, Sappho wears monks' saffron.
Author: Saiom Shriver

_Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Author: William Penn

_POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless Christmas dinner's dark and blue When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny Easter feasts are just bad luck When you see it from the viewpoint Of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.
Author: Shel Silverstein

_Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Author: W. C. Fields

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_Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Author: St. Augustine

_I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
Author: Dean Martin

_The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Author: Dorothy Day

_Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Author: Charles Dickens

_All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Author: Epictetus

_Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
Author: Danish Proverb

_Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
Author: Horace Greeley

_"meat produced under current factory farming conditions (which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms of Jewish law.)"
Author: Rabbi David Rosen

_Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
Author: Art Margolis

_We all know there is blood in meat (USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).
Author: Charles Grassley

_The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Author: William Temple

_It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing.. must drive carefully in each others' corridors.
Author: O Anna Niemus

_Reborn, Sappho wears monks' saffron.
Author: Saiom Shriver

_Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Author: William Penn

_POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless Christmas dinner's dark and blue When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny Easter feasts are just bad luck When you see it from the viewpoint Of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.
Author: Shel Silverstein

_Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Author: W. C. Fields