A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde 
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
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
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If Christ were here now there is one thing
he would not be - a Christian.
- Mark Twain
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
She drove me to drink.
That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
- the movie Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
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
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing
to be adjusted by abolition of forms.
It requires change of heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
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