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I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
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I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
- Douglas Adams
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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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
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
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.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
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
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
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
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
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.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde 
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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)
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
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
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
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
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
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
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
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