July 2009


Inspirational Quotes18 Jul 2009 05:44 am

OK, here are some advice quotes and here is the best quite on advice to start with:

The best advice is this: Don’t take advice and don’t give advice.
~Author Unknown

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
~Old Proverb

Give advice to your children while they’re young enough to believe you know what you’re talking about.
~Unknown

Here is a funny one though:
Never answer an anonymous letter
~Yogi Berra

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
~Henri Matisse

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
~Gore Vidal

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal
~ Oscar Wilde

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
~G. K. Chesterton

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
~William Somerset Maugham

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~Aeschylus

Advice is least heeded when most needed
~English Proverb

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
~Lillian Hellman

Funny Quotes17 Jul 2009 06:33 pm

Some Funny Quotes on advertising to cheer you up. We can’t be too serious all the time. You could find some Inspirational message as well though

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.
~Author Unknown

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
~Raymond Chandler

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
~George Orwell

If we never got a letter of complaint, we’re being way too conservative.
~ Scott Gilbert

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
~Lord Northcliffe

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.
~David Ogilvy

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
~ John Lahr

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.
~Michael Schudson

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
~Norman Douglas

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
~Stephen Leacoc

Art for art’s sake makes no more sense than gin for gin’s sake.
~William Somerset Maugham

Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
~Albert Einstein

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
Leo Burnett

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
~Leo Burnett

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
~Mason Cooley

Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’
~Jef I. Richards

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

General Topics and Inspirational Quotes15 Jul 2009 06:39 pm

Inspirational Quotes on Admiration.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

This is a very wise saying on Admiration
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
~Francis H. Bradley

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
~Benjamin Franklin

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Jean Rostand

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
~Elizabeth Bowen

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abashed.”
~John Milton

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
~ Thomas Creech

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
~Denis Diderot

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
~Joseph Addison

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is an Admiration quote I like the most:
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
~Minna Thomas Antrim

Happiness and Inspirational Quotes14 Jul 2009 06:29 pm

Some Quotations on Peace, because on can only be truly happy or truly inspired to do something if there is peace..

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is always beautiful.
~ Walt Whitman

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Theresa

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
~Anonymous

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
~Isaac Asimov

War would end if the dead could return.
~Stanley Baldwin

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
~Leonard Bernstein

It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
~Edmund Burke

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
~Denis Diderot

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
~George Bernard Shaw

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
~Goethe

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
~Dorothy Thompson

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
~Thomas a Kempis

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
~Thomas Merton

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
~Mother Jones