
It ain't over till it's over.
- Yogi Berra
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
War is a game that is played with a smile.
If you can't smile, grin.
If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- Winston Churchill
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
It would be insane for me to
lose sleep over the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion.
The several sects perform the office of a Censor -
over each other.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Anger is a destructive emotion
that becomes instinctive over the years.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca
I do not want to foresee the future.
I am concerned with taking care of the present.
God has given me no control over the moment following.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
My Cup Runneth Over - My Life Is Abundant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Repressed anger still is anger, it just isn't expressed.
If you truly have no anger, you are blessed and joyful.
If you have repressed anger, know that you have anger,
you just haven't expressed that anger.
Go ahead, express your anger briefly,
pound pillows, scream, curse.
Then take a deep breath, and get over it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
The tyrant dies and his rule is over,
the martyr dies and his rule begins
- Soren Kierkegaard
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
I say to you quite frankly that
the time for racial discrimination is over.
- Jimmy Carter
You have a row of dominoes set up;
you knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the last one
is that it will go over very quickly.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
- John F. Kennedy
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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