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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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 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
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
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)
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
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)
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
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
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
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
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
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
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
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
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
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
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