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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde 
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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)
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
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We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
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
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
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
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
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
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