
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Dance with a Light Heart.
I play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This [the Holocaust] must never happen again. ...
Be vigilant about your rights.
Care about the rights and human dignity of others.
When the rights of any group, no matter how small,
no matter how marginal, are violated,
your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers, Ph.D., Professor of History,
University of Pennsylvania, in the closing remarks
of his six-hour Teaching Company audio lecture series
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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