We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and
the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter
Gratitude is an attitude that
hooks us up to our source of supply.
And the more grateful you are,
the closer you become to your maker,
to the architect of the universe,
to the spiritual core of your being.
- Bob Proctor
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
To say that authority, whether secular or religious,
supplies no ground for morality
is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
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
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
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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