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Is it bigger than breadbox?
- the early television show Twenty Questions
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A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
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The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Grin your smile;
giggle your laugh;
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Be Utterly and Dependably Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
Your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
I skip on the beach, and play with the waves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Original, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat, dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- commonly but falsely attributed to Dr. Seuss,
this misquote consists of the Bernard Baruch quote,
"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
with additional words added anonymously.
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