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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations are dead unless a spur for inquiry.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
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Quotations are slippery things, really.
A brief sentence or phrase, often repeated -
always completely out of its original context -
and sometimes not an accurate representation
of the author's original words, let alone his intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation;
and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries;
and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
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
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
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
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
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
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
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
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
"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]
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
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