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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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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
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)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Computers happen.
- Anonymous
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
It's just random chance, baby; get used to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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