Is it bigger than breadbox?
- the early television show Twenty Questions
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec 
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
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
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
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
Crazy is walking down the street
with half a cantaloupe on your head,
muttering; "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster."
- the movie Spy Hard (1996)
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Uh-oh. My past is throwing clods at my future again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
God doesn't make junk.
- Anonymous
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
- Lewis Carroll
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin
I wish you a rainbows and butterflies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
I wish you a tea and jammies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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