Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
The rite of the rings appeals yet appalls:
a cutting, a joining, a losing, a gaining.
One becomes half, as two become one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
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
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life 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
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
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
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 way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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)
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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
Anger spells dANGER.
- 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
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
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
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)
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- Sydney Harris
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
Facts are stubborn things,
but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
- Lewis Carroll
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful
than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I wish you a magical white rabbit kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
Computers happen.
- Anonymous
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
"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
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
It's not a mess.
It's a physical manifestation of
a wonderfully complex ability to
assess and compartmentalize information.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take care of the sense
and the sounds will take care of themselves.
- Lewis Carroll
Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar
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