A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
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
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
My compassionate intents are generally received clearly
and acted upon - perhaps not immediately,
or in exactly the way I hope -
but acted upon favorably, nonetheless.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Enlighten the people generally,
and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind
will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Truth always rests with the minority,
and the minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion,
while the strength of a majority is illusory,
formed by the gangs who have no opinion -
and who, therefore, in the next instant
(when it is evident that the minority is the stronger)
assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)
It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
If you have been divorced, you know it hurts -
especially if your marriage had lasted many years.
Whatever the circumstances of your relationship,
and whatever the nature of its ending,
there is always grief and regret -
perhaps regret over the ending,
or perhaps regret over not ending the relationship sooner -
or perhaps both.
Nonetheless, move past the grief and regret.
No matter how painful, divorce, like all endings,
opens the door to new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Commonsense is the realized sense of proportion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning
greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Henry David Thoreau
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
A man is rich in proportion to
the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul
grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The older I get, the more wisdom I find
in the ancient rule of taking first things first.
A process which often reduces
the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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