Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

You know what kills me about Jennifer Lopez? The fact that this woman wakes up one day and she's like, 'You know what? From now on, I'd like people to call me J-Lo,' and then they do it. Only a celebrity can get away with this. George Bush doesn't come out for his morning press conferences: 'From now on, I'd like to be referred to as G-Bu. Y'all know my vice president, Dog Chain.

Carlos Castaneda

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

C. S. Lewis

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Holly Swoape

We have never really had any problems that I know of. Occasionally there are little scuffles -- between dogs or humans -- but nothing serious.

Agnetha Faltskog

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

Agnes Repplier

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

Agnes Repplier

whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

Agnes Repplier

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

Agnes Repplier

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Brian Weiss

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

Charles Spurgeon

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Bruce Barton

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Juvenal

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Carolyn Wells

Reward is its own virtue.

Daniel H. Pink

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Eartha Kitt

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

Blaise Pascal

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Alfred Korzybski

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Allan Bloom

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Cornel West

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Chris Ullman

We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)