Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.
When you are tempted to say,
"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf game
and watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.
Either generate the heart-felt emotion
to make the free-will gift,
"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"
or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.
Martyrdom doesn't create happiness
for any of the parties involved.
An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like a Dolphin, I am Graceful, Powerful, and Compassionate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit.
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage,
a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
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
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
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's cookies, he smells like cookies,
and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat.
- the movie Michael
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
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
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
When I hear a man preach,
I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
- Abraham Lincoln
When life is like a slippery downhill slope,
go skiing and scream Whee... all the way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60.
They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
Chanting OM is sort of like MOOing backward.
- Anonymous
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water.
After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
- Minnie Pearl
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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