Saturday 27 May 2017

Criticism Sayings and Quotes



A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.    

Laurence J. Peter





Don't call the alligator, big mouth until you have crossed the river.    

Belizean (on criticism)





Don't judge anyone unless you've walked in their moccasins one moon.    

Native American Proverb





Don't judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday appearances.    

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)





It is easier to criticize than to do better.    

Swiss (on criticism)





Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me.    

unknown





The bad plowman quarrels with his ox.    

Korean (on criticism)





The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting.    

Vietnamese (on criticism)





The pen is mightier than the sword.    

unknown





The rattan basket criticizes the palm    

ed bag, yet both are full of holes. - Filipino (on criticism)





The worst enemy you have is right in your head.    

unknown





When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.    

Confucious ()





Worthless people blame their karma.    

Burmese (on criticism)





You'll never do anything behind you that won't come up in front of you.    

unknown, thanks to "riverrat"





Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill





Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Frank A. Clark





There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.    

Joseph Addison





I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Johannes Kepler





The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.    

Elbert Hubbard





The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.    

Norman Vincent Peale





Don't criticize what you can't understand.    

Bob Dylan





To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Aristotle





He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.    

Abraham Lincoln





Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson





People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham





Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.    

Unknown Author





When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Unknown Author





Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.    

Emmet Fox





Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.    

Dale Carnegie





How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli




Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton





Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.    

Unknown Author





Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt





Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones





If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Alice Miller





Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.    

Howard Mumford Jones





Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.    

James Luther Adams







A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.    

David Brinkley





The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean De La Bruyere





If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.    

Fred Allen





The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.    

James Allen





Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.    

Paul Arden





Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mary Kay Ash





Criticism should be a casual conversation.    

W.H Auden





Remember that all is opinion.

Marcus Aurelius





The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Oscar Wilde





A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

James Russell Lowell





Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.    

Sam Rayburn





Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Unknown Author





The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

Creativity Sayings and Quotes



A good book praises itself.    

German (on books and writers)





A good spectator also creates.    

Swiss (on art and creativity)





A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw.    

English (on books and writers)





A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.    

Greek (on books and writers)





A picture is a poem without words.    

Latin (on art and creativity)





A picture's worth a thousand words.    

unknown





A thousand artisans, a thousand plans.    

Chinese (on art and creativity)





All the world's a stage.    

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)





Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often.    

Korean (on art and creativity)





Even the best writer has to erase.    

Spanish (on books and writers)





Every age has its book.    

Arabic (on books and writers)





Every picture tells a story.    

unknown





Great ideas are the fuel of progress.    

unknown





Great minds think alike.    

"Punch" (c.1922)





If you believe everything you read, better not read.    

Japanese (on books and writers)





Imagination is more important than knowledge.    

Albert Einstein





Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780-1832)





Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius.    

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)





Men willingly believe what they wish.    

Julius Caesar (c.102-44 BC))





Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.    

unknown





Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.    

George Eliot (1819-1880)





Quality, not quantity.    

unknown





The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart.    

Moroccan (on books and writers)





Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs





Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.    

Edward de Bono





Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam





Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Edward de Bono





Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity    

Charles Mingus





Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas    

Donatella Versace





Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things    

Ray Bradbury




When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.    

Linda Naiman





The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alan Alda





The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.    

Frank Goble





The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.    

Carl Ally





Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.    

Mary Lou Cook





Creativity is seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.    

Michele Shea





The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas    

Abe Tannenbaum





Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.    

Erich Fromm





It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others.    

George Kneller





You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.    

Maya Angelou





To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.    

Joseph Chilton Pierce





Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.    

Arthur Koestler





The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.    

Margaret J. Wheatley





The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.    

Anthony Jay





Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.    

Rita Mae Brown





Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.    

Gail Sheehy





Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different resumes. It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.    

Ken Robinson





For creativity to flourish [requires] the embrace of loss, the oldest and most constant of human experiences.    

Julie Burstein





Creative works may indeed be kind of like property, but it's property that we're all building on.    

Kirby Ferguson





The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.    

Pablo Picasso





The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.    

Albert Einstein

Crazy People Sayings and Quotes



What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. Leguin





Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.    

Gordon R. Dickson





I never set out to be weird. It was always the other people who called me weird.

Frank Zappa





We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Samuel Beckett





Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bonds divide.

John Dryden





Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.

William Dement





A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Albert Einstein





Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Haruki Murakami





Sane is boring.

R.A. Salvatore





Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

Jake Gyllenhaal






I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.    

John Lydon





Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.    

Michaela Watkins





If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.    

Bo Bennett





The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

William Butler Yeats





Don't expect to see positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.

Zahid Abas





Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.    

Steve Jobs





Dogbert: Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.

Scott Adams





The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius





All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.    

Ambrose Bierce





Some may never live, but the crazy never die

Hunter S. Thompson





If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.    

Hunter S. Thompson





Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Robert Anton Wilson





Religion makes themcrazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

Orson Scott





Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.    

Mark Twain





People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there    

Dave Davies





The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

Jean-Michel Basquiat





Everybody is pathological to a certain degree... the more so the elevated his standing... only myth and cliche have that a person must be either sane or crazy.    

Paul Julius M_bius





When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you crazy because they are lazy.

Israelmore Ayivor





Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.    

Gabriel Garcia Marquez





I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.    

Fred Wilson

Friday 26 May 2017

Crazy Friends Sayings and Quotes



My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane.

Matt Schucker





You'll look a lot less crazy if you can get your friend to do it with you.

Unkown





If you have crazy friends, you have everything.    

Unkown





Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.    

Robert Brault





Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!    

C. S. Lewis





You don't have to be crazy to be my friend but it sure helps!

Unkown





The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.    

Rita Mae Brown





A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it    

Andrew Solomon





Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.    

Charles Lamb





A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltzer





Best friends...they know how crazy you are and still choose to be seen with you in public.    

unknown





A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.    

Arnold H. Glasgow





An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.

Jim Hayes





Behind every successful woman is a best friend giving her crazy ideas.

unknown





You will never realize how wired your friends are until you start to describe them to someone else.

unknown





We are best friends. Always remember that when you fall, I'll pick you up, after I finish laughing.

unknown

Crazy Family Sayings and Quotes



I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck





My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.'

Penelope Lombard





If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present"and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.    

Robert Brault





Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.

unknown





If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

Ashleigh Brilliant





If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.    

Jeff Foxworthy





Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements    

Elizabeth II





My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

Rodney Dangerfield





Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Douglas Adams





Being crazy isn't enough.

Dr. Seuss





Where to look if you've lost your mind?

Bernard Malamud





Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

Emilie Autumn





Crazy is a relative term in my family!

unknown





It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.    

Melody Beattie





Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.

Criss Jami





No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.

Nicole Gulla





Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Cary Grant





Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Laing





Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.    

Elizabeth Wurtzel





I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom.

Bob Hope





I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.    

Victor Borge





The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended- and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended.

Robert Frost





Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Evan Esar





In some families, 'please' is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was 'sorry'.

Margaret Laurence





Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

Wayne H.





Insanity does not run in my family. Rather, it strolls through, taking its time, getting to know everyone personally.    

unknown





We are all born crazy. Some of us remain that way.

Samuel Beckett





Every family has that one crazy person in it. If you're missing one I seem to have a few extras.

unknown





A crazy person has the ability to make a sane person crazy.    

unknown





Never judge someone by their relatives.    

Charles Martin

Coworkers Sayings and Quotes



Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways    

Bob Nelson





Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Fred Allen





The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.    

Harvey Mackay





Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.    

Robert Reich





In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

Russell Hornsby





A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.    

Lars Peter Hansen





Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.    

Erik Paulsen





My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at them, even if my glance is a complimentary one.    

Harry Ellis Dickson





Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.

Glen Mazzara





If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.

Amit Kalantri





Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

Sam Walton





When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.    

LeBron James





Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

Deepak Chopra





I don't see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don't think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.

Shahid Kapoor





Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.    

Robert Fisk





Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.    

Gresham Barrett





Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

George W. Romney





It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.    

Warren Buffett





Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.    

Sam Walton





I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

Shawn Johnson





We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.    

Denis Diderot





When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.    

James Sinegal





Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.    

Ricardo Semler





It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Michael Eisner





The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.

Clare Balding





In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

Tony Lema





All workers want is a fair shake.

James P. Hoffa





An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

Bob Nelson





A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.    

Zig Ziglar





An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.    

Gary Hamel




A part-time worker is fully employed, half the time. In other words, they are part-time unemployees.    

Jarod Kintz





Most employees don't really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours.    

Mokokoma Mokhonoana





I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.    

Franklin D. Roosevelt





At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Daniel Nathans





My peers and colleagues inspire me.    

Robin Chase





A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.    

Arthur Conan Doyle





If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting and whether or not we leaders agree.    

Ernest Bevin





I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.    

David Brock





If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese





American workers are first rate.

Christopher Dodd





My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.    

Eva Gabor





None of us is as smart as all of us.

Kenneth H. Blanchard





The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana





Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.    

Arthur Schopenhauer





I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.    

Ian Somerhalder





We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.    

Logan Pearsall Smith





I have a lot of acquaintances, a few are buddies    

Toba Beta





An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.    

Ambrose Bierce





When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

Shannon L. Alder





We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.    

Samuel Johnson

Cowboy Sayings and Quotes



No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Winston Churchill





No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

Paul Weller





When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.

Roy Rogers





The best way to describe a cowboy Is mud, blood, guts, and glory.

Redneck





First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.

James A. Michener





Ain’t nuthin’ like ridin’ a fine horse in new country.

Agustus MacCrae





Some cowboys have to much tumbleweed in their blood to settle down.    

Ken Alstad





A true cowboy knows love, pain and shame but never cares about fame.

Anonymous





When you’re young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you’re my age, you splatter.

Roy Rogers





Ride E’m Cowboy, don’t let them throw ya down.. You can’t make no money if ya hit the ground, Ride E’m Cowboy, don’t let them throw ya down, You’re the toughest Cowboy in town.

Juice Newton





Cowboys don’t cry!! Maybe just a little bit when the dust gets in their eyes. A cowboy is a person who loves his horse, and being out on the ranch doing the hard and dirty work, and is loyal to his girl. I love my cowboy.

Janelle





There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.

Missy Lyons





The cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man or take unfair advantage.    

Anonymous





Where the leather is scarred, there is a great story to tell.

Jimmy Tart





Let him ride a horse. He’s a cowboy ain’t he.    

Nathanael West





You can tell a true cowboy by the type of horse that he rides.    

Anonymous





Cowboys are gentlemen who treat women with respect and work hard. They use their manners more than any other man would and ride horse and bulls like their is no tomorrow.

Anonymous





Learn this well, the last ride is never the last ride. And the end is not the end.

Richard Rowland







The horse is a mirror to your soul. And sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.

Buck Brannaman





Cowboys don't go around breaking hearts.

Missy Lyons





We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

Morrie Schwartz





It doesn’t matter if a Cowboy lives in the mountains or in the flats, as long as it’s warm and there is a place to lay his hat.    

Anonymous





The only good reason to ride a bull is to meet a nurse.

Anonymous





A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes.

Judge Roy Bean





I took to the life of a cowboy like a horse takes to oats.    

Anonymous





A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse.

William James





True cowboys are the ones who aren’t afraid to get dirty.

Lane Frost





Real cowboys never run, they just ride away.

Anonymous





Cowboys they are all so tough on the outside, but so sweet and soft on the inside.

Amber





Now you are thinking like a thief. Fewer guns and more exits. We'll cure your cowboy ways yet.

Richard Kadrey




When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Chris Kyle





It ain't the clothes that make the cowgirl, it's the attitude and heart.

Anonymous





Cowboys work hard, play well, love soft, and are a hell of alot better than any other boy I’ve ever seen.

Olivia Flannery





Boots, chaps and cowboy hats. Nothing else matters.

Anonymous





Cowboys don’t take bath, they just dust off.

Tornado





Cowboys need nothin' more than a hat, horse, and the will to ride.

Anonymous





Any cowboy can carry a tune. The trouble comes when he tries to unload it.    

Anonymous





A good cowman knows how to lie to the tax collector and the cattle buyer.

Anonymous





If you think bull riding' isn't intense, come sit on his back and try on my saddle. This aint for tenderfoots.    

Clancy Jean Driscoll

Coward Sayings and Quotes



You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

George Bernard Shaw





Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.    

Euripides





A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

John Calvin





Faint heart never won fair lady.    

Miguel De Cervantes





He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Ernest Hemingway





The coward fears the prick of Fate, not he who dares all, becoming himself the dreaded one.

Elise Pumpelly Cabot





For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Christian Nestell Bovee





It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

Casey Robinson





Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

George Eliot





A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson





A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him.    

Phaedrus





Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.    

Jose Rizal





The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

Albert Camus





The worst cowards, banded together, have their power.

Homer





That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Edgar Allan Poe





The coward's weapon, poison.

John Fletcher





Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

Scylar Tyberius





There never was found a man who had courage to acknowledge himself a coward.

Joseph R Bartlett





It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Dolores Ibarruri





A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Marvin Kitman





Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.    

Rollo May





Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.    

Ernest Hemingway





A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce





If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.    

Criss Jami





A coward talks to everyone but you.

Shannon L. Alder





It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.    

Junius





I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

L.A. Meyer





Chirp of coward shouted in crowd, dare to speak but not to be known.

Toba Beta





A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Quintus Curtius Rufus




Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Mahatma Gandhi





To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.    

Confucius





A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

Chinua Achebe





The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.    

Publilius Syrus





It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Cormac Mccarthy





Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

Edgar Watson Howe





I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Spike Milligan





Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for you.    

Shannon L. Alder





A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Burke





None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch





Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.    

Ambrose Bierce





Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare





A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way.    

Bangambiki Habyarimana





I'd like to see one person just one who would own up to having been a coward.

Edith Piaf





There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

W.E.B. Du Bois





A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.    

Mahatma Gandhi





Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi





Cowards dare others to do what they themselves do not dare to do.    

Ana Monnar





A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.    

J. R. R. Tolkien

Sunday 21 May 2017

Cousins Sayings and Quotes



Cousins are friends that will love you forever.

Constance Richards





Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the cousins together.

Woodrow Wilson





Cousins by blood - friends by choice.

Darlene Shaw





In my cousin, I find a second self.    

Isabel Norton





A cousin is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

Marion C. Garretty





Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.

Courtney Cox





Cousins are those childhood playmates who grow up to be forever friends.

unknown





Cousins are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Ed Cunningham





At Christmas, Cousins are the presents under the tree.    

Karen Decourcey





Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

H. L. Mencken





Cousin to cousin we'll always be, Special friends from the same family tree.

unknown





Cousins by chance, friends by choice.

Proverb





I always call my cousin because we're so close. We're almost like sisters, and we're also close because our moms are sisters.

Britney Spears





Cousins are Sisters you never had.

Reah Glowstorl





Cousins are Cool to see, Impossible to Forget and True to your heart.

Leo Farno





A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin.

Italian Proverb





No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for attending family gatherings is for your children to have the time of their lives with their cousins. Little kids love their cousins. I'm not being cute or exaggerating here. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids. If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover. Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be. Are the cousins going to be there? Fun!    

Jim Gaffigan





Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.

Chill Wills





Born as a cousin, made as a friend.    

Byron Pulsifer





Cousins are not those we do not know but instead part of a family that also provide support and comfort.

Byron Pulsifer





A real cousin (or friend) is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Proverb





I may argue with my brother, but I fight beside my brother against my cousin, and with my cousin against a stranger.

Old Arab adage





Our dads used to do this, and now us cousins always get together for it.    

Larry Lewis





If you have 30 cousins, it's pretty easy.    

Joseph P. Kennedy





Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

Shirley Abbott





A cousin is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost    

unknown





Cousins are many. Best friends are few. What a rare delight to find both in you.

unknown





Friends are forever, cousins are for life!    

unknown





Nobody will understand the craziness of your family better than your cousins

unknown





A cousin is a ready-made friend for life.    

unknown

Courage Sayings and Quotes



A man's got to do what a man's got to do.    

unknown





A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.

Korean (on journeys)





Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.    

William Danforth (1870-1955)





Courage is the complement of fear.    

Lazarus Long, thanks to D. Housel





Cowards die many times before their death.    

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)





Don't be led around by the nose.    

unknown





Faint heart never won fair lady.    

W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)





Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.    

German Proverb





Fear the person who fears you.    

Middle Eastern (on courage and fear)





Given a challenge, rise to the occasion.    

unknown





Have the courage of your convictions.    

unknown





Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.    

Norwegian (on courage and fear)





If you are afraid of something, you give it power over you.    

Moroccan (on courage and fear)





It is easy to be brave from a distance.    

Aesop (c.620-560 BC)





Keep a stiff upper lip.    

unknown





Keep your chin up.

unknown





Like a fish, one should look for holes in the net.    

Samoan (on freedom and slavery)





One with the courage to laugh is master of the world.    

Italian (on courage and fear)





Our fears always outnumber our dangers.    

Latin (on courage and fear)





The blind person is not afraid of ghosts.    

Burmese (on courage and fear)





The brave person regards dying as going home.    

Chinese (on courage and fear)





The longest journey begins with the first step.    

unknown





The person afraid of bad luck will never know good.

Russian (on luck)





What cannot be cured must be endured.    

Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)





With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an elephant.    

Tibetan (on attitude)





Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.    

Swedish (on courage and fear)

Saturday 20 May 2017

Couples Sayings and Quotes



I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

Fannie Flagg





I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

Tahereh Mafi





Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that's the thing'you're a couple, and couples can't function without trust.    

Nicholas Sparks





I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

Julia Roberts





A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Francis





Maybe you don't need the whole world tolove you, you know, maybe you just need one person.

Kermit The Frog





Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Aphra Behn





The first duty of love is to listen.    

Paul Tillich





Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Margaret Mead





Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Emily Kimbrough





There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.

Robert Brault





... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.    

Gretchen Kemp





We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.

Unkown





Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

Friedrich Halm





When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

When Harry Met Sally





I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

The Fellowship Of The Ring





Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

William Shakespeare





Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.    

Sarah Bernhardt





Relationships are stronger when you're best friends first, and a couple second.    

Unkown





The compatibility of a couple and the quality of a relationship lies in the way they handle their arguments and differences..    

Nishan Panwar





Staying together when things get tough will only make you a stronger couple.

Unkown





Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Micheal Leunig





If you have respect and consideration for one another, you'll make it.    

Mary Durso





We may have started as individuals, but now we are as one.    

Bryon Pulsifer





In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Maya Angelou





Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bront





A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.    

Kenny Loggins





Soul mate: two little words, one big concept. A belief that someone, somewhere, is holding the key to your heart.

Carrie Bradshaw





It's a wonderful thing, as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face, when you've gotten old, and still sees what you think you look like.

The Bachelor (Movie)





The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.    

Carl Jung

Country Song Sayings and Quotes



Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance, and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

Lee Ann Womack





Holding you here like a rose in the dark. I make this promise to you from my heart. You won't be lonely now.

Billy Ray Cyrus





True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.    

Garth Brooks





I'll be there anytime you need me by your side, to drive away every teardrop that you cried.

Freddy Fender





Yeah and she's my kinda crazy The little games she plays Lord they'll never get old She's too cute to get on my last nerve The way she throws her little fits Pokin' out her lip and bitin' mine when we kiss There ain't a fight that she can't win That's my baby And she's my kinda crazy.

Brantley Gilbert





She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she'll always be there!

Jason Aldean





If there's no direction and you can't see Let your heart draw a map in the stars and go where it leads.

Alisan Porter





I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love.

Garth Brooks





Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.    

Shania Twain





Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me But some things are meant to be Coincidence, circumstance Or something bigger thats just out of our hands But some things are meant to be.    

Sammy Kershaw





I'm more afraid of being nothing than I am of being hurt.    

Cole Trickle





The best way to get over a man is to get under a new one.

Ryan Turner





When I look into your eyes I still get weak And when Im this close to you I just cant speak And its hard to keep my hands to myself When I know I could never love anybody else.

Gary Allan





So I made a promise to myself to say each day how much she means to me, and avoid that circumstance where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel.    

Garth Brooks





All the things I didn't mean to say I didn't mean to do There were things you didn't need to say You didn't need to.    

Frank Ocean





A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.    

Dave Matthews





It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It’s what you leave behind you when you go.    

Randy Travis





When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Lady Lou





Here I am This is all of me I'm not hiding I'm standing tall for all to see.

Alexandria





Finally content with a past I regret, I’ve found you find strength in your moments of weakness.

Rascal Flatts





Birds don't just fly, they fall down and get up Nobody learns without getting it wrong.

Shakira





From here to eternity, I'm asking you to share your life with me. Now and forever I guarantee, I'll always stay by your side.    

Michael Peterson





Well I know when you're around cause I know the sound I know the sound of your heart.

The 1975





Her little ring is a little thing, but its all I could afford Now she's mine, all mine till the day I die, and I never wanted nothin' more.

Kenny Chesney





Life’s a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don’t worry about what you don’t know.

John Michael Montgomery





When you're gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you. When you're gone, the face I came to know is missing too. When you're gone, the words I need to hear to always get me through the day and make it okay. I miss you.

Avril Lavigne





Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

Faith Hill quotes





I really do have love to give, I just don't know where to put it.    

Donnie Smith





Saved two months, bought a little diamond. Tonight's the night, feels like perfect timin'. Down on one knee on momma's front steps, man I'm gonna die if she really says yes.    

Kenny Chesney





You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, Know when to walk away and know when to run.

Kenny Rogers




I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now.

Willie Nelson





I want to hate you, I'm mad as hell, oh but a part of me still loves you, and hopes and prays to God you're doing well.

Jana Kramer





If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you.

Dr. Hugo Hackenbush





Love is like a dying ember, and only memories remain. And through the ages, I'll remember blue eyes crying in the rain.

Willie Nelson





I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs… songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.    

Harlan Howard





I wanna know everything about you, and wanna go down every road youve been. Where your hopes and dreams and wishes live. Where you keep the rest of your life hid. I wanna know the girl behind that pretty stare. Take me there.    

Luke Bryan





Take a look around. I'm the sunshine in your hair. I'm the shadow on the ground. I'm the whisper in the wind. I'm your imaginary friend.

Lonestar





A heart can be broken but it keeps beating just the same.

Ninny Threadgoode





One out of two ain’t gonna make it Those are the odds these days And in a world of statistics He’s left tryin’ to survive Till every other Friday at five.    

Trace Adkins





He said I'll love you 'til I die. She told him you'll forget in time. As the years went slowly by, she still preyed upon his mind.

George Jones





She don't know how much I need her She don't know I'd fall apart Without her kiss without her touch Without her faithful lovin' arms.

Andy Griggs





In your heart--I can still hear a beat for every time you kiss me. And when we're apart, I know how much you miss me I can feel your love for me in your heart.

Shania Twain





If there's no direction and you can't see Let your heart draw a map in the stars and go where it leads.

Alisan Porter





I want to be there when you wake up, be more than just your friend, baby there's no mistaking, you're the love I want to be in.    

Jason Aldean





And I knew, nothing I could say or do Could come close to thankin' you for your love And I could try for the rest of my life But that wouldn't be half enough

Lorrie Morgan





Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results

Willie Nelson





When you get where you're goin Don't forget turn back around Help the next one in line.

Tim McGraw





With Country Music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Kenny Rogers





I'll follow you out of the dark. I tried my way but I keep falling apart.

Papa Roach





Don't know how you do it. I love the way I lose it, every time. What's even better is knowing that forever you're all mine.

Rascal Flatts

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Friday 19 May 2017

Country Love Sayings and Quotes



Patriotism is not the same as nationalism, because love of country is not the same as worship of country.

John Chandler





Patriotism is a thing of the heart. A man is a patriot if his heart beats true to his country.

Charles Edward Jefferson





Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Theodore Roosevelt





The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals





Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell





What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

Emma Goldman





Our country is wherever we are well off.

Marcus Tullius Cicero





Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.    

Cory Booker





They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway





There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke





How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney





True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.    

Clarence Darrow





I can't but say it is an awkward sight to see one's native land receding through the growing waters; it unmans one quite, especially when life is rather new.    

Lord Byron





I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Theodore Roosevelt





Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

James Bryce





Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.    

George Bernard Shaw





My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heav'n is sent, long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

Robert Burns





Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.    

Percy Dearmer





I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln





The essence of patriotism is the sacrifice of personal interest to public welfare.

William H. Burnham





Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.    

Mark Twain





The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Stonewall Jackson





It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Aristotle





If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.    

Ronald Reagan





It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.    

J. Horace Mcfarland





It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.

Sallust





A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.    

Edward Abbey





To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson





Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.    

Charles De Gaulle





Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.    

Joe Biden

Country Life Sayings and Quotes



City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

Stephen King





The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.    

Horace





One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.    

Nathaniel Parker Willis





City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Mason Cooley





Being in the country is like being in a dream, one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all, that strange human creature that is me, one among all.    

Meia Geddes





I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.

Lord Byron





There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.    

Agnes Repplier





Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven, and imprint forever upon our hearts that this is home and that we are loved.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson





The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.    

Lori Lansens





Cow dung and horse dung, as muck goes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grain, and on the far side of their smell there is hay and grass.

John Berger





Country life has its advantages, he used to say. You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good and there are gooseberries.    

Anton Chekhov





The milking machines sounded tranquilizing, and there was the collegiality of seventy animal spirits thriving, warming the barn with cud-chewing, nose-snuffling, and sisterly mammalhood.    

Edward Hoagland





The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow





God made the country, and man made the town.

William Cowper





The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.    

Edwin Hubbel Chapin





Not by human dwellings not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them.

Solomon Northup





What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Laurie Lee





If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Giovanni Ruffini





Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin





And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

John Steinbeck





Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.    

Johnson





The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.    

William Penn





I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Amos Bronson Alcott





Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.    

Oscar Wilde





Country things are the necessary root of our life and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.    

Esther Meynell





Scenes must be beautiful which daily view’d. Please daily, and whose novelty survives .Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

William Cowper





A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.    

Raymond Williams





The country habit has me by the heart.    

Vita Sackville West





I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.    

Albert Einstein





This pure air braces the listless nerves, and warms the blood: I feel in freedom here.

Joanna Baillie




There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.    

Amos Bronson Alcott





Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

Mason Cooley





He who marries a wife reared on the land marries strength and purity and compassion.    

Beecher





Far from the gay cities, and the ways of men.

Homer





We need only to close our eyes and we are back on the Third Line, walking up the lane, through the yard and entering the bright, warm kitchen. We are home again.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson





There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.    

William Hazlitt





Men are taught virtue and a love of independence by living in the country.

Menander





In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Geoffrey F. Fisher





Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, exhilirate the spirit, and restore the tone of languid nature.

William Cowper





I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.    

Simon Pegg





Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette





I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.    

Vita Sackville-West





Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

Mason Cooley





People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

PJ Harvey





The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.    

Alan Brien





Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.    

Anton Chekhov

Country Girl Sayings and Quotes



Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

Ava Gardner





Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country; Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels won’t make me Cinderella.    

Kellie Elmore





Talkin, true blue, out in the woods, down home, country girl.

Jason Aldean





If you can find a nice pretty country girl that can cook and carries her bible, now there's a woman.

Phil Robertson





Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Lilith Saintcrow





A country girl can talk her way out of a ticket.    

Kellie Pickler

Country Boy Sayings and Quotes



I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.  

Travis Fimmel





I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.  

Andrea Bocelli





True cowboys Are The ones who aren’t afraid to get dirty.

Lane Frost





I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

Will Rogers





I'm a country boy who hasn't really been exposed to city living, and it throws me.  

Randy Moss





I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.  

Taylor Kinney

Thursday 18 May 2017

Cooperation Sayings and Quotes



In union there is strength.

Aesop





He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca





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

John Donne





The path to greatness is along with others.

Baltasar Gracian y Morales





You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.    

A. A. Milne





Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.    

Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D.





Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.

Helen Keller





In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.    

Charles Darwin





Many hands make light work.

John Heywood





Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable    

Kenyan Proverb





We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.    

Martin Luther King Jr.





If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.    

Benjamin Franklin





Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

William Shakespeare





In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.    

Oliver Wendell Holmes





Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





Not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies.

Thomas Paine





All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

Heraclitus






He who cannot help may hinder.

German Proverb





Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.    

Howard Schultz





A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

Danish Proverb





When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.    

Michael De Saintamo





So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Bahaullah





Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Henry Ford





The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.    

Vince Lombardi





The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.    

Phil Jackson





People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

Tom Vilsack





The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.    

Bertrand Russell





Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.    

Chinese Proverb





Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict.

Julius Nyerere





Cooperation is willing collaboration by free individuals in a collective effort that creates more value than it expends.    

James Raymond Lucas




Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.    

Maxwell Maltz





Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Max Lerner





Union gives strength.

Aesop





The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.    

Carl Jung





People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi





Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.    

Claude M. Bristol





Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

Bible





Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Albert Einstein





Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Earl Nightingale





God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.

Spencer W. Kimball





Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.    

William James





No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.    

Althea Gibson





We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.    

Thich Nhat Hanh





When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.    

Jean Vanier





You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

Doug Floyd





Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police    

Albert Einstein





Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.    

Greg Anderson





The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.    

Preston Bradley





Doing things for others always pays dividends

Claude M. Bristol





No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Phillips Brooks

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