Cute Sayings (5)
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
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Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
When life is like a slippery downhill slope,
go skiing and scream Whee... all the way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
- Lewis Carroll
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
It is far more impressive when others
discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin
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
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
And you, Sonja, you look more beautiful
standing here than you do in person.
- the movie Love and Death (1975)
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful
than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero needed - apply now -
open minded independent thinker -
courage preferred.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
That's the secret to life . . .
replace one worry with another.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
When I want to be bold about my movement ...
I for sure do not call it exercise!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
An architect's most useful tools are
an eraser at the drafting board,
and a wrecking bar at the site.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
Just remember, after they foreclose on your mortgage,
you get a lot more sunshine in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.
- Winnie the Pooh
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
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
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Cut Sayings
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Cuts Sayings
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cutting Sayings
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Wholeness Sayings
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Think Sayings
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise Hay
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
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