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WORD FOR THE WEEK
Cook's tour | KUKS-toor ("Cook's" rhymes with "books") | noun

a rapid or cursory survey or review

Example sentence: The textbook provides a Cook's tour of American history, touching on all the highlights but offering little in-depth analysis.

merriam webster

We are not here because of each other, but for each other

Mikee's Living Quote

NEW QUOTES FOR THIS WEEK:

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

-- Solon

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

-- Saint-Exupery

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valuable acquaintances.

-- Emerson
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

-- Nietzsche

Noble and common blood is of the same color.

-- German proverb

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

-- Sophocles

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

-- Descartes

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

-- Charles Dudley Warner

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have it pinned on them.

-- George Ade

God looks at clean hands, not full ones.

-- Publilius Syrus

I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes.

-- Sara Teasdale

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

-- Aristotle

Bad is never good until worse happens.

-- Danish Proverb

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

-- John S. Coleman

What destroys one man preserves another.

-- Corneille

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

-- Rene Coty

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

-- George Chapman

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

-- Aristotle

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

-- Thomas Fuller

You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

QUOTES ARCHIVE...LOTS AND LOTS HERE...

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

-- John F. Kennedy

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

-- Joan Heywood

When we are in love, we often doubt that which we most believe.

-- La Rochefoucauld

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

-- Charles F. Kettering

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

-- Georg Lichtenberg

Wisdom has its root in goodness, and not goodness its root in wisdom.

-- Emerson

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

-- Henry Adams

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

-- The Bible (Mark 3:25)

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

-- Luigi Pirandello

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

-- John Stuart Mill

The mark of the man of the world is the absence of pretension.

-- Emerson

Time is the greatest innovator.

-- Francis Bacon

Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money.

-- Andre Suares

Everyman has a sane spot somewhere.

--Robert Louis Stevenson

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

-- Bertolt Brecht

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

-- Lord Chesterfield

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

Aristotle

If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.

--Anatole France

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

-- John F. Kennedy

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

-- George Herbert

"The stupid man dies a stupid death"…

-- Chinese proverb

An honest man's word is as good as his bonds.

-- Cervantes

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

--Addison Mizner

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

--William Hazlitt

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.

--Will Rogers

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

--Arthur "Bugs" Baer

The law is fair to all. In its fairness for equality it forbids the rich as well as the poor to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

--Anatole France

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

--Benjamin Franklin

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

--Cicero

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

--Oliver Goldsmith

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

--H.L. Mencken

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

--Oscar Wilde

It is very lonely sometime, trying to play God.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be good and you will be lonely.

--Mark Twain

Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

- Aristotle

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

Confucius

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

--Horace

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

--E.R. Bulwer-Lytton

"Taste does not come by chance: It is a long and laborious task to acquire it."

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Kindness begets kindness.

--Greek Proverb

"A liar should have a good memory."

Quintilian

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

--Sam Levenson

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

--Gregory Nunn

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

--Anatole France

"The end must justify the means."

Matthew Prior

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

--Will Rogers

My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world.

--George Bernard Shaw

A Jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

--Robert Frost

Mistakes are their own instructors.

--Horace

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans."

Ronald Reagan

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

--Ernest Hemmingway

Drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can't say it.

--Anonymous

Whereof one cannot speak, thereon one must remain silent."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not even sure about the universe."

--Albert Einstein

"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."

Herbert Sebastian Agar

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

--Samuel Butler

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance.

--Victor Hugo

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

--Oscar Wilde

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

--H. L. Rogers

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

--Anatole France

History: An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

--Ambrose Pierce

One must choose between loving women and knowing them.

-- Ninon Lenclos

Man has his will -- but woman has her way.

-- Oliver Wendel Holmes, Sr.

The basic and essential human is the woman.

-- Orson Welles

Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

-- Ambrose Bierce

Love: the quest; Marriage: the conquest; Divorce: the inquest

-- Helen Rowland

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

--Napoleon

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

--Humphrey Bogart

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. --Aristotle "A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." - Herbert Prochnow The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

--George Bernard

There is only one thing in the world worse then being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

--Oscar Wilde

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

--Katharine Hepburn

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

--Will Rogers

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

--Samuel Johnson

Some have greatness thrust upon them--but not lately.

--Frank Dane

"All Nature wears one universal grin."

Henry Fielding

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

--Oscar Wilde

The future is on more uncertain than the present.

--Walt Whitman

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

--Oscar Wilde

No furniture so charming as books, even if you never open them, or read a single word.

--Sydney Smith.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

--Oscar Wilde

If all persons knew what they said of each other there would not be four friends in the world.

--Blaise Pascal

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

--Chinese Proverb

"A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth."

Henrik Ibsen

"One man that has a mind and knows it, can always beat 10 men who haven't and don't."

--George Bernard Shaw

Don't be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

---Josh McDowell

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

---Winston Churchill

The Beatles said, "All you need is love." And then they broke up.

---Larry Norman

A diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without his neighbor noticing it.

--Carlos Romulo

"Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

William Shakespeare

"Music creates order out of chaos; for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous."

Sir Yehudi Menuhin

"People who need people are the luckiest people in the world."

Bob Merrill

Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.

--American Proverb

Show me your friend and I'll show you your ends.

--Portuguese Proverb

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

--Benjamin Franklin

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

--Ed Howe

The Holy Passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

--Mark Hubbard

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things."

Ben Jonson

"The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are."

• Sir Winston Churchill

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

--Benjamin Franklin

A bank is place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rain.

---Robert Frost

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person?

---Francois De La Rochefouauld

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."

-- Dennis Miller

"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."

--David Letterman

"To err is human, not to, animal."

Robert Frost

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

--Henry David Thoreau

Envy is the companion of glory.

--Latin Proverb

God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

--Ethel W. Mumford

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

--Fred Allen

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

Winston Churchill

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

---Zsa Zsa Gabor

"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."

Horace

"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."

--Thomas Jefferson

"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."

- Mark Twain

Alexander Woollcott has said, "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."

"If we stand tall it is because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors."

Yoruba Proverb

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

Henry Kissinger

"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

Lewis Mumford

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

---Zsa Zsa Gabor

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

~ Henry Fielding ~

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

~ John Beecher ~

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy -- invincible determination -- a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

~ Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton ~

"Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."

Franklin Adams

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

~ William James ~

The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it by dropping them off at the wrong houses.

--Jeff Foxworthy

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

-- Winston Churchill

"Democracy means government by discussion but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."

Clement Attlee

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

-Tim Allen

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually. -- Steven Wright Future...Only the past entered through another gate

~Arthur Wing Pinero~

The trouble with life is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired.

--M. Berle

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

--Woodrow Wilson

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

--Robert Benchley

I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

--Gypsy Rose Lee

"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."

Jane Addams

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck.
Your profession is what you were put on earth to do.
With such passion and such intensity that it becomes
spiritual in calling.

Vincent Van Gogh

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result."

-- Albert Einstein

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"

Henry James

"Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."

-- Groucho Marx

"There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it."

-- Lily Tomlin

The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

-- Jackie Gleason

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

-- Agatha Christie

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

-- Woody Allen

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

---- Bill Cosby

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

--- Winston Churchill

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

"When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would ONLY play with each other."

-- Rita Rudner

I give advice worth the price....free!

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

-- Jim Carrey

It is better to have that which you do not need, than to need that which you do not have.

It's true that you can't judge a book by its cover, but you can tell how much it's going to cost.

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."

--Johnny Carson"

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"

--Lily Tomlin

When you see the handwriting on the wall, you can bet you're in a public restroom.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

~ Charles Bixton ~

I'm not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.

Dog Quotes

"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."

-- Dave Barry

"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl."

-- Penny Ward Moser

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."

-- Robert Benchley

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."

-- Rita Rudner

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money."

-- Joe Weinstein

"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant."

-- Unknown

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

-- Ann Landers

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."

-- Dereke Bruce

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."

-- Ben Williams

"Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it."

-- Unknown

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."

-- Josh Billings

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."

-- Andrew A. Rooney

"A beautiful soul has no other merit, but it's exsistence."

- Von Schiller -

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

- Buddha -

To love is to bring joy to our heart To be loved is to bring joy to another To be in love is to join two hearts together

cozmo

"It is generally agreed that 'Hello' is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said 'Goodbye', it could confuse a lot of people."

- Dolph Sharp -

"Cynics are well-informed optimists."

- Jeff Frieden -

"This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?"

- Lee Remick -

"One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time."

- Nancy Astor -

"A bartender is a temporary pharmacists with a limited inventory."

- unknown -

"Twas a Woman who drove me to drink. And I never had the courtesy to thank her!"

- Unknown -

"God made wine for great and small. Small fools drink too much. Great fools drink none at all!"

"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same."

- Anonymous -

"The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

"Lust is when you love what you see. Love is when you lust for what's inside."

- Renee Conkle -

"Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality."

- Theodor Reik -

"Love is like a faucet, you can turn it off an' on, But when you think you've got it, it's done turned off and gone."

- Blues Song -

Love is , the gentle whispers of the wind , telling you my my heart is yours !

cozmo

"Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, it may alight upon you."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne -

"Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream."

- George Linley, from "Thou Art Gone" -

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

- G. K. Chesterton -

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

- Joan Crawford -

"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip."

- Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum -

"The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other."

- Ashleigh Brilliant -

"I get this feeling we'll be together again. No straight lines make up my life, all roads have bends. No clear cut beginnings and so far no dead ends."

- Harry Chapin, from "All My Life's A Circle" -

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its lovliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

- John Keats -

"Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size."

Walter Savage Landor

"If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears."

Lord Byron

"There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them."
Zora Neale Hurston

"The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit."

James Joyce

"For all at last return to the sea to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end."

Rachel Carson

"Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. " Mae West
Always reach for the stars! Even if you don't get them, you won't end up with a handful of dirt.

submission by topper

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

Helen Keller

"Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other."

Mary Ashton Livermore

"It indicates the deadly weight of the terrible tradition of a dialogue between master and servant which we have to overcome."

Nelson Mandela

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. "

Abraham Lincoln
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind."

William Shakespeare

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius

"A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

— Stephen King

"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice."

Jack Herbert

"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."

Jesse Jackson

" no one may interfere with your happiness, without you consent "

cozmo

"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry."

"Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

--Walter Elliott

"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it."

--Kurt Lewis

"The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep."

--E. Joseph Cossman

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious."

--B.C. Forbes

"There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve."

--Mike Leavitt

"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."

--Abigail Van Buren

"Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait."

--Thomas A. Edison

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