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Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda 
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
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
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Most people think that anger is an instinctive response,
and that some people were just born with the temperament
to get angrier faster than others.
That statement is only half right.
Anger is an instinctive response.
We respond to an affront with anger essentially instantaneously -
much too quickly for conscious thought to be called upon.
But the instinct of the anger response
can be trained through conscious repetition,
visualization, and coaching.
Visualization is seeing the event
we desire to master in our mind's eye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
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
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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