Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Your talent is God's gift to you.
- Leo Buscaglia
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
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
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Frankly, I'm too scared to ask about the frog.
- the movie Tangled (2010)
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
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
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
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
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
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers.
This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated
thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
- Albert Einstein
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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