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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
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I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- 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
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
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
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
At the beginning of a relationship
we are attracted to the other person because
we think they are sexy, smart, funny -
whatever it is that we find appealing.
But very quickly, the focus of the relationship
turns to whether we feel appreciated.
If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
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
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
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