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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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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Facts are stubborn things,
but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
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
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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