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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed) 
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
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Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Computers happen.
- Anonymous
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
- Lao Tzu
Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
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