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)
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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart 
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
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