Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
You may as well laugh at life,
because it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Every actual State is corrupt.
Good men must not obey laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So confident am I in the intentions,
as well as wisdom, of the government,
that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done,
either cannot, or ought not to be done.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Well, when you come down to it,
I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau
The interests of a nation, when well understood,
will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- Thomas Jefferson
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Ambition has one heel nailed in well,
though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Lao Tzu
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so,
a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Thomas Jefferson
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
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