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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
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One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
- George Carlin
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin
I love and treasure individuals as I meet them;
I loathe and despise the groups
they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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