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There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
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Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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