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- A happy marriage is a matter of giving and taking: the husband gives and the wife takes.
- When a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it is love. After marriage it is self - defense.
- A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are the portals of discovery.
- It is not the word that corrupts the mind, but the mind that corrupts the word.
- Life is full of regrets don't let me be one of yours.
- When a man brings his wife a gift for no reason, there's a reason.
- Nothing is impossible if you don't have to do it yourself.
- Religion must never be used as an excuse for violence.
- When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
- To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
- More than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
- Hardwork has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
- The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
- Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
- People are willing to meet each other halfway, but their judgments of distances vary considerably.
- Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
- When a newly married man looks happy,we know why. But when a 10-year married man looks happy, we wonder why.
- After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin. They just can't face each other, but they stay together.
- Manners are like the zero in arithmetic; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.
- The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
- Just because someone agrees with you doesn't make you right. It just means there's some one else out there as stupid as you
- A generation which ignores history has no past or future.
- Anger always drives the mouth faster than the mind.
- Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of reason.
- Be careful when slinging mud, you might lose ground.
- Be smart as a cat: Make a friend of your enemy's enemy.
- Better to marry a woman who loves you than one you love.
- Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
- They say love is blind. True. It's marriage that is the real eye-opener.
- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of the lessons that history has to teach.
- Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought.
- When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
- A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
- There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
- Truth is the most powerful thing on earth because it is the only thing that cannot be changed.
- A friend in power is a friend lost.
- He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he must pass himself. For every man has a need to be forgiven.
- If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
- Sometimes when you open up to people, you let the bad in with the good.
- Forgiveness granted without a request may not bring complete resolve and reconciliation but it does produce liberty to the offended.
- Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
- To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
- He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend loses much more; he who loses faith loses all.
- Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance.
- Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
- Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.
- Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
- If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
- Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
- Anger is only one letter short of danger.
- Never argue with an idiot, they'll just bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
- A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy, because the poor person has hope. He thinks
money would help.
- A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
- Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
- A man without a vision, is a man without a future. And a man without a future will always return to his past.
- To admit you are wrong is the first step toward getting right.
- If your foot slips, you may recover your balance, but if your tongue slips, you cannot recall your words.
- His heart cannot be pure whose tongue is not clean.
- There is no greater mistake than to suppose that Christians can impress the world by agreeing with it.
- Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
- Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
- A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
- Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
- The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
- In all things do your best. The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.
- The only thing on this earth that will never die...is a memory.
- The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
- Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
- There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread (--- Mahatma Ghandi).
- Rejoice that you have found gratitude, for it means you have lost nothing.
- Marriage (as its veterans know well) is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.
- A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
- Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back.
- Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
- The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- There are no elevators to success, you have to take the stairs.
- It is better to sleep on what you plan to do than to be kept awake by what you've done.
- Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
- At one time or another we all regret something. You may regret
something you said, or something that you didn't say. You may regret that you stayed too late, or that you went too early. You may regret that you won something, or that you lost. But in all your life, you'll never regret being kind.
- A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- You need courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
- The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
- Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
- When I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
- Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
- If you want praise, die. If you want blame, marry.
- It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- A lot of trouble in this world is caused by combining a narrow mind with a wide mouth.
- The course of human history should be determined, not by how far have we reached in the skies but how far our hearts have reached.
- Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure, help us in our marching onward.
- Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
- Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
- Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
- When you fall on the ground it hurts; but you also need to rely on the ground to get back up again.
- Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.