You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Loyalty to country ALWAYS.
Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
Forgiving others is a gift to yourself,
given not because the other deserves pardon,
but because you deserve the serenity and joy
that comes from releasing resentment and anger,
and from embracing universal forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
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
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
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
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
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 most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
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