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Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
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Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
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L. L. Henderson
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
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Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)
It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
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Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
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Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times Aug. 31 1924
Is life worth living?
Aye, with the best of us,
Heights of us, depths of us -
Life is the test of us!
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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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Unknown
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
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Brian Adams
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
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Carlos Castaneda
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.
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Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
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Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
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Edward P. Tryon
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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