funny inspirational phrases

   More men have become great through practice than by nature.
  ~Author : Democritus Famous Quotes

   Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
  ~Author : H L Mencken Inspirational Sayings

   ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
  ~Author : John Adams Diary 1786 Nice Quotes

   For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
  ~Author : J W Schopf Great Sayings

   The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
  ~Author : Norman Thomas Meaningful Sayings

   Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
  ~Author : Sir Richard Steele Wise Quotes

   Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
  ~Author : Nancy Astor Motivational Sayings

   By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
  ~Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky Famous Quotes

   Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
  ~Author : John Donne Inspirational Sayings