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This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
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May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let us celebrate the occasion
with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise with the occasion.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
- Abraham Lincoln
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
The people of the world genuinely want peace.
Some day the leaders of the world are going to
have to give in and give it to them.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
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)
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
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