A person without a sense of humor
by Henry Ward Beecher
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Sayings by Henry Ward Beecher
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher 
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Person Sayings
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise Hay
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
A person who is nice to you,
but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person.
- Dave Barry
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
- Jerome Blattner
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
You don't marry someone you can live with,
you marry the person who you cannot live without.
- Anonymous
And you, Sonja, you look more beautiful
standing here than you do in person.
- the movie Love and Death (1975)
I think the person who takes a job in order to live -
that is to say, for the money -
has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
To educate a person in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sense Sayings
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
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