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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
Friends are like melons, Shall I tell you why To find one good, you must a hundred try.
How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table.
The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.
One who thinks by the inch and talks by the mile should be kicked by the foot.
True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades.
The only bad thing about keeping on burning your bridges Behind you, is that the world is round..
When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the mind and frees your spirit.
In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.
To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor.
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
Love is friendship caught on fire.
Use disappointments as material for patience.
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.
Many a man thinks he has an open mind, when it's merely vacant.
Pessimists are in a winwin situation, whatever happens they are either always right or pleasantly suprised.
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead
To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
Never judge someone till you've walked a mile in their shoes, cause then you're a mile away and you've got their shoes.
He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
If it is to be, it is up to me.
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
The wages of sin are unreported.
Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me.
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
My Karma ran over your dogma.
No matter how long it takes, If you keep moving, One step at a time, You will reach the finish line...
Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.
If you can't find the key to success, pick the lock.
It is the darkest hour before dawn.
The world pins no medals on you because of what you know, but it may crown you with glory and riches for what you do.
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
Be happy Be supportive Be Naughty Be just like the way you are But don't get bored.
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Why learn at all if one day we will die and forget everything
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.
The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'.
If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?
Character is what you are when no one is looking.
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
Those who hear not the music. . . think the dancers mad.
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.
Though it's important that people know you, It is more important if they think you are worth knowing.
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.
SMILE GOD LOVES YOU
One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude.
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
The man who said he never had a chance, never took a chance.
Sometimes on the way to our dreams, We get lost and find an even better one
Faith is believeing in something That sometimes doesn't always seem logical.
You're the one I love to love, hate to hate, love to hate and hate to love.
Great minds think independently, not alike.
Life was made to be enjoyed as well as endured.
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
If you believe in something, no proof is necessary. If you don't, none is sufficient.
Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
It is not doing the things we like to do, But liking the things we have to do That makes life blessed.
Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
We are all instantly forgiven but in order to benefit from this forgiveness, we must in turn forgive others and ourselves.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.
When you hug someone, never be the first to let go.
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort
Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you dont say.
Never lose hope.
Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
Prayer is .... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.
Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there.
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
He who loses faith, loses all.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.
Prayer gives us the opportunity to speak to GOD, Meditation allows GOD to speak back to us.
Realists don't fulfill their ambitions. There must be a dreamer in all of us.
It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.
It isn't always necessary to achieve great things. Sometimes, just surviving is a great achievement.
If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
As long as I'm faced in the right direction, It does not matter the size of my steps.
He was a true friend, he stabbed me in the front.
In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal.
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried
If you listen you will hear If you look you will see If you touch you will feel If you try you will be.
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there.
Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success.
I would rather reach for the stars, Then at least I know That I could never end up with dirt on my hands.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Never be afraid to try something new remember amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.
The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
Run straight ahead, And if anything gets in your way...turn
Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune.
Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.
(Think of one's self as a teakettle) Though up to it's neck in hot water, It continues to sing.
Show a leg or shake a leg.
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.
Don't deny hope it's chance to work magic
It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.
You have to eat the first piece of candy Before you can eat the whole bag.
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you get all wet.
The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.
None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.
True friends are like diamonds precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves found everywhere.
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.
Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.
If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny.
If your prayers were always answered, you'd have a reason to doubt the wisdom of God.
Don't be with someone you can live with be with someone you can't live without.
Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
Never frown, even when you're sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
Antonym, n. The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
If someone betrays you once, it's his fault If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
It takes a lot of balls to golf the way I do.
You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.
Everyone hates change because change brings the unknown.
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
You never have a chance for your luck to operate if you don't take risks.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.
You can't make someone love you, and while you try, you lose the people who really care.
Real solutions are discovered only where they actually exist Within the individual's own essence.
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.
I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.
If you fear change, leave it here.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
I believe in livin' a life less ordinary... Yet extraordinary.
The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.
War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left.
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Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.
Never complain about growing old, Because so many never get the chance
Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.
The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
An act against my will is not my act.
Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.
If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.
If all the world's a stage, then where is the audience sitting
Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.
Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.
He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
All I want to do is to minister to someone, And if I do that, Then the Lord's work in me has been done.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
The future belongs to those who dare.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization.
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.
DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
There are people who make things happen,
those who watch what happens,
and those who wonder what happened.
those who watch what happens,
and those who wonder what happened.
Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.
If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.
Don't cry because it's over smile because it happened.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead.
There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent.
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing...
A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation.
No good plan survives contact with the enemy.
Not all those who wonder are lost.
Fools rush in where fools have been before.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.
The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.
If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done.
Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
A healthy family is sacred territory.
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
Life is too short to be sensible.
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
Plan like you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Give, and forget Receive, and remember
J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
All general statements are false.
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.
Courage atrophies from lack of use.
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Everything you do or say is public relations.
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.
There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
Live like you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Serious Sincere Systematic Service Surely Secures Supreme Success.
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit.