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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
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Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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