Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Geography has made us neighbors.
History has made us friends.
Economics has made us partners,
and necessity has made us allies.
Those whom God has so joined together,
let no man put asunder.
- John F. Kennedy
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
I believe in equality for everyone,
except reporters and photographers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You have not been abandoned.
You are never alone, except by your own choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
I have no dress except the one I wear every day.
If you are going to be kind enough to give me one,
please let it be practical and dark
so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
- Marie Curie
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
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
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
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