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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 PHOTO

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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