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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
The four most important words in any marriage...
"I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Of all the things that could frighten you,
you worry about my driving?
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I want to thank my parents for everything I am today -
fat, miserable, and paranoid.
- Anonymous
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
Confucius might have said:
Once frightened, twice smelly in armpit.
- Anonymous humor
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
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