It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
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
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
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
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are a number of things wrong with Washington.
One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
With a penetrating vision
you can dissipate the obstruction,
remove the obstacle,
dissolve the wrong condition.
- Ernest Holmes
War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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