Dec
01

The Magical Season of Winter

Meteorological winter is the season having the shortest days and the lowest average temperatures, which have the coldest weather. This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, and June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere.

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. (Willa Cather)

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. (Willa Cather)

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. (Stanley Crawford)

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. (Stanley Crawford)



There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance. (by William Sharp)

Every mile is two in winter. (George Herbert)

Every mile is two in winter. (George Herbert)

Winter tames man, woman, and beast. (William Shakespeare)

Winter tames man, woman, and beast. (William Shakespeare)

One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese Proverb)

One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese Proverb)

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. (Sinclair Lewis)

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. (Sinclair Lewis)

Grace grows best in winter. (Samuel Rutherford)

Grace grows best in winter. (Samuel Rutherford)

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:  it is the time for home. (Edith Sitwel)

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. (Edith Sitwel)

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another, and one century and the next.  (Andy Goldsworthy)

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another, and one century and the next. (Andy Goldsworthy)

When snow falls, nature listens.  (Antoinette van Kleeff)

When snow falls, nature listens. (Antoinette van Kleeff)

Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.  (John Boswell)

Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. (John Boswell)

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Aug
19

It’s all about money (Quotations about money)

Money, one of the earliest and most significant inventions of civilization, is essential to the development of trade. Money is anything that is commonly accepted by a group of people for the exchange of goods, services, or resources and repayment of debts.

Gold and money

Gold and money

Many of us are just too uptight when we think about money. Money is a reality, a permanent feature of our everyday lives. It gives our lives a particular rhythm, a particular «charm», a particular perception of the world and our place in it.

Money is capable of invoking the whole range of emotions. Money has been lauded and cursed, it has been dreamed of and disdained. What is money – good or evil? It brings stability and instability and makes people looking for and running away from it. Money is capable of creating and destroying, of uniting and disuniting. It makes people partners and rivals and can influence the fate of individuals and whole nations. But what does money bring – freedom or dependence? People obtain money working hard and playing and spend it with joy and sadness. Man makes money, and money makes man: it forms his way of living and his way of thinking.

Time is money. (Benjamin Franklin)

Time is money. (Benjamin Franklin)

“Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson

If you can grasp the idea that money is not real, you will grow rich faster. (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

If you can grasp the idea that money is not real, you will grow rich faster. (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” – James W. Frick

Money often costs too much. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Money often costs too much. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like” – Will Smith

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. (Voltaire)

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” – Spike Milligan

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. (Pablo Picasso)

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. (Pablo Picasso)

“The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.” – Katherine Whitehorn

Never spend your money before you have it. (Thomas Jefferson)

Never spend your money before you have it. (Thomas Jefferson)

“There are two ways to really know people. One is to live with them; the other is to handle their money” – John D. Spooner

A penny saved is a penny earned. (Benjamin Franklin)

A penny saved is a penny earned. (Benjamin Franklin)

“Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back.”— Author Unknown

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Woody Allen)

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Woody Allen)

“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.” – Benjamin Franklin

The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money. (IRS auditor)

The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money. (IRS auditor)

One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There’s no time to do both – Edouard Bourdet.

If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you.  (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you. (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand

Money will come when you are doing the right thing. (Mike Phillips)

Money will come when you are doing the right thing. (Mike Phillips)

“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.” – Errol Flynn

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. (Charles Dickens)

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. (Charles Dickens)

“Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.” – Owen Laughlin

Lack of money is the root of all evil. (George Bernard Shaw)

Lack of money is the root of all evil. (George Bernard Shaw)

Money is always there but the pockets change. – Gertrude Stein

Money frees you from doing things you dislike.  (Groucho Marx)

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. (Groucho Marx)

There are people who have money and people who are rich. – Coco Chanel

Money is the best deodorant. (Elizabeth Taylor)

Money is the best deodorant. (Elizabeth Taylor)

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Jul
09

Time Quotations

Time has been studied by philosophers and scientists for 2,500 years. Astronomer Carl Sagan had it right when he said that time is “resistant to simple definition.” Lots of us think we know what time is, but it is hard to define. You can not literally see or touch time, but you can see its effects. The evidence that we are moving through time is found in everything – our bodies age, buildings weather and crumble, trees grow. Most of us feel the pressure of time as we are pushed to meet deadlines and make appointments. Our lives are often dictated by what time we need to be somewhere.

Here is the list of the time quotations of many famous authors:

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. (Leonardo Da Vinci)

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. (Leonardo Da Vinci)

“In daily life we divide time into three parts: past, present, and future. The grammatical structure of language revolves around this fundamental distinction. Reality is associated with the present moment. The past we think of having slipped out of existence, whereas the future is even more shadowy, its details still unformed. In this simple picture, the “now” of our conscious awareness glides steadily onward, transforming events that were once in the unformed future into the concrete but fleeting reality of the present, and thence relegating them to the fixed past.” (Paul Davies, “That Mysterious Flow”)

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. (C. S. Lewis)

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. (C. S. Lewis)

“Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once”. This quote, attributed variously to Einstein, John Archibald Wheeler, Woody Allen, says that time is what separates cause and effect.

Time is the fire in which we burn. (Delmore Schwartz)

Time is the fire in which we burn. (Delmore Schwartz)

“Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.” (Doménico Cieri Estrada)

Nothing is as far away as one second ago. (Jim Bishop)

Nothing is as far away as one second ago. (Jim Bishop)

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard)

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard)

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. (Horace Mann)

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. (Horace Mann)

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. (Albert Einstein)

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. (Albert Einstein)

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. (Brian Tracy)

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. (Brian Tracy)

Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.

Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.

Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. (Jean De La Bruyere)

Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. (Jean De La Bruyere)

The time you think you're missing, misses you too. (Ymber Delecto)

The time you think you're missing, misses you too. (Ymber Delecto)

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. (Will Rogers)

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. (Will Rogers)

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. (Scottish Proverb)

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. (Scottish Proverb)

Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. (T. S. Elliot)

Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. (T. S. Elliot)

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