It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
It is difficult for the common good to prevail
against the intense concentration
of those who have a special interest,
especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
- Jimmy Carter
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What if we like our outrageous side best?
We "know" that the "right" thing to do is to suck it up,
put the costume and the happy face back in storage for another year,
re-dress in our frown and gray flannel suit,
and trudge back to job, chores, "responsibilities," and "duty."
Stop! Maybe TODAY is the day to put the frown and gray flannel
into that dusty storage locker, and start to LIVE.
Not just today, but EVERY DAY for the rest of your life!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
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
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
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
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
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
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
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)
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
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
It's cookies, he smells like cookies,
and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat.
- the movie Michael
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll
Chanting OM is sort of like MOOing backward.
- Anonymous
Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
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
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
When life is like a slippery downhill slope,
go skiing and scream Whee... all the way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra
When I hear a man preach,
I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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