Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Morality which depends upon the helplessness
of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold on with a bulldog grip,
and chew and choke as much as possible.
- Abraham Lincoln
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The invisible and nonexistent look much alike.
- Delos B. McKown
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Living never wore one out
so much as the effort not to live.
- Anais Nin
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The mind constantly chatters.
That chatter winds up being the force
that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,
what we react to, and how we feel.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
Well, when you come down to it,
I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The people are hungry:
It is because those in authority
eat up too much in taxes.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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