To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton 
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)
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
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
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
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
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
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
Jesus was all right,
but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
- John Lennon
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- 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
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln
The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is,
as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Today is the right day to do
what you have long wanted to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
Do what you feel in your heart to be right -
for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
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
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying
as to put the right man in the right place.
- Thomas Jefferson
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
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