Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz 
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
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
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
It's cookies, he smells like cookies,
and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat.
- the movie Michael
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)
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60.
They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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