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Unknown Quotes
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View Afrikaans quotes by this author.Only within burns the fire I kindle.
My heart the altar.
My heart the altar. ~ Unknown - Poem of a Buddhist nun
Great speakers listen to the audience with their eyes. ~ Unknown
Public speaking is an audience participation event; if it weren't, it would be private speaking. ~ Unknown
A good speech is like a pencil; it has to have a point. ~ Unknown
Exhaust either the topic nor the audience. ~ Unknown
No good speech ever came to a bad end. ~ Unknown
Caution: Do not open mouth until brain is in gear. ~ Unknown
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. ~ Unknown
In vino veritas
With wine comes truth. ~ Unknown
God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~ Unknown - Yiddish Proverb
Everyone, in the final analysis, is in business for himself. ~ Unknown
It's a wise man who lives with money in the bank; it's a fool who dies that way. ~ Unknown - French proverb
The cards you hold in the game of life mean very little - it's the way you play them that counts. ~ Unknown
A man's deeds are his life. ~ Unknown - West African saying
Aiming isn't hitting. ~ Unknown - East African saying
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. ~ Unknown - Slogan of the United States Army Service Forces
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. ~ Unknown
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. ~ Unknown
My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am. ~ Unknown
An act of peace, no matter how small, is an act of hope. ~ Unknown - CDA website
Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement. ~ Unknown
They said it couldn't be done, but we did it. ~ Unknown
Those who dare do; those who dare not, do not. ~ Unknown
Better return half way than lose yourself. ~ Unknown - Dutch proverb
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~ Unknown
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. ~ Unknown
Action speak louder than words. ~ Unknown
Only people who do things get criticized. ~ Unknown
He who waits for roast duck to fly into his mouth must wait a very, very long time. ~ Unknown - Chinese proverb
Your food is close to your stomach, but you must put it in your mouth first. ~ Unknown - West African saying
When the snake is in the house, one need not discuss the matter at length. ~ Unknown - West African saying
It's always darkest before the dawn. ~ Unknown
  That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it. ~ Unknown - A congressional candidate in Texas
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ~ Unknown
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
~ Unknown
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. ~ Unknown
Remember the Maine! ~ Unknown - 1889, slogan popularized in Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers...
I am an atheist, thank God! ~ Unknown
Character is a victory, not a gift. ~ Unknown
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts. ~ Unknown
If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child. ~ Unknown
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. ~ Unknown
Children are one-third of our population and all of our future. ~ Unknown - Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. ~ Unknown - Modern Maturity
To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. ~ Unknown
A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ~ Unknown
Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. ~ Unknown
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced. ~ Unknown
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive. ~ Unknown
The Bill of Rights - The Original Contract With America. Accept no substitutes. Beware of imitations. Insist on the genuine articles. ~ Unknown
The cowards never started - and the weak died along the way. ~ Unknown
Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside. ~ Unknown
In God we trust; all others must pay cash. ~ Unknown
Buying on trust is the way to pay double. ~ Unknown
Set a thief to catch a thief. ~ Unknown
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it. ~ Unknown
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. ~ Unknown
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~ Unknown
A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. ~ Unknown
The United States can ... be proud that it has institutions and a structure that permit its citizens to express honest dissent, even though those who do so may be maligned by the highest official in the land. ~ Unknown - New York Times
The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what the kernel is. ~ Unknown
All sunshine makes a desert. ~ Unknown
The world is run by C students. ~ Unknown
There is nothing so useless as doing effeciently that which should not be done at all. ~ Unknown
Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick. ~ Unknown
Give me a productive error over a boring, mundane and unproductive fact any day. ~ Unknown
Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it. ~ Unknown
I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ~ Unknown
None but a mule denies his family. ~ Unknown
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends,
And no investment on the street pays larger dividends,
For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent,
And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent. ~ Unknown
Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ~ Unknown
My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. ~ Unknown
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead. ~ Unknown
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. ~ Unknown
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice. ~ Unknown
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind. ~ Unknown
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill. ~ Unknown
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once. ~ Unknown
Money can buy a fine dog, but only love and kindness can make it wag its tail. ~ Unknown
Man is preceded by a forest and followed by a desert. ~ Unknown - Anonymous French Graffiti
To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight. ~ Unknown
A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go. ~ Unknown
A little help is worth a great deal of pity. ~ Unknown
Hero-worship is mostly idol gossip. ~ Unknown
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. ~ Unknown
History belongs to the winner. ~ Unknown
History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there. ~ Unknown
We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history. ~ Unknown
Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell.
While other folk go hungry, we're eating pretty well.
With home and health and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss;
For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us. ~ Unknown
There's no place like home, after the other places close. ~ Unknown
Honour follows those who flee it. ~ Unknown
There is less to fear from outside competition than from inside inefficiency, discourtesy and bad service. ~ Unknown
We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives. ~ Unknown
A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something which would make you mad if it happened to you. ~ Unknown
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance. ~ Unknown
All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart. ~ Unknown
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when its the only one we have. ~ Unknown
Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it. ~ Unknown
Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative. ~ Unknown
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet. ~ Unknown
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties
And things that go bump in the night, good Lord deliver us! ~ Unknown
Attitudes are contagious . is yours worth catching? ~ Unknown
So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell. ~ Unknown
Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth. ~ Unknown
Try to save money. Someday it may be valuable again. ~ Unknown
Law of inflation: whatever goes up will go up some more. ~ Unknown
If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage. ~ Unknown
Insanity: grounds for divorce in some states, grounds for marriage in all. ~ Unknown
I am a poet
and did not know it.
I make a rhyme
every time. ~ Unknown
He who puts up with insult invites injury. ~ Unknown
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains. ~ Unknown
Edison did not invent the first talking machine -- he invented the first on that could be turned off. ~ Unknown
Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment. ~ Unknown
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. ~ Unknown
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