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This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
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 read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
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Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Let us celebrate the occasion
with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise with the occasion.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
- Abraham Lincoln
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The people of the world genuinely want peace.
Some day the leaders of the world are going to
have to give in and give it to them.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
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A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
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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 is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- 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.
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Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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)
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)
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
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When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
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
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
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
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'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
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
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
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
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
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
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
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
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