The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono
This physical world is to our imagination as ice is to water -
pure water forms pure ice - dirty water forms dirty ice.
Consider how much easier it is to purify water before it freezes
than it is to chip the impurities from the solid ice.
So also, it is much easier to purify your thoughts
before they manifest into physical reality,
than to try to cut the cancerous impurities from solid reality
after you have manifested your thoughts into physical form.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no judgments.
The River flows with no concept of good and bad - right and wrong.
The fields and dreams of men may be nourished by the River of Life,
or flooded and covered with silt, and the River just flows.
Men may catch fish and live on the River of Life,
or they may founder in a storm and drown, and the River just flows.
The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless,
and it changes in its own time.
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Crazy is walking down the street
with half a cantaloupe on your head,
muttering; "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster."
- the movie Spy Hard (1996)
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
Just remember, after they foreclose on your mortgage,
you get a lot more sunshine in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
Life is serious, get out your magic wand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
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