Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency
the reputation which carried him into it.
- Thomas Jefferson
War will exist until that distant day
when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige
that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Positive thinking has acquired a bad reputation -
which I believe to be totally undeserved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
Some are reputed sick and some are not.
It often happens that the sicker man
is the nurse to the sounder.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Frankly, I'm too scared to ask about the frog.
- the movie Tangled (2010)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
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
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
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
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
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
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
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
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
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