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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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
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
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- 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
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
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
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
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
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
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
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
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