One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash
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
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
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
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful,
natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism.
To steal from many is research.
- Anonymous
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.
"Supernatural" is a null word.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason,
than that of blind-folded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
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
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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