... Sagacious Sayings 2 ...

  1. It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

  2. A bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" -Ann Landers

  3. A burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power --a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. -Marsha Sinetar.

  4. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. -Henry Ford

  5. A fellow can remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry. And as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in. And on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all. But I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I hadn't thought of that girl. -Mr. Bernstein (in Citizen Kane)

  6. A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience's attention. Then he can teach the lesson.. -John Henrik Clarke

  7. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson

  8. A government which takes from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw

  9. A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -Robert Quillen

  10. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. -Winston Churchill

  11. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. -Eric Hoffer

  12. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. -John Barrymore

  13. A man might be a brilliant physician, or an accomplished mathematician, yet still believe that Mohammed keeps half the moon up his sleeve. -Voltaire

  14. A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogue could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues? -Arthur Schopenhauer

  15. A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. -Muhammad Ali

  16. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -Albert Einstein [I want to add a point here: Of course, functioning out of fear of punishment and hope for reward is not the optimum way of living. But out of necessity and only at times, that might be the way for children.]

  17. A moral principle ... is not a command to act or forbear acting in a given way; it is a tool for analyzing a specific situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such. -John Dewey.

  18. A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth. -Edward De Bono

  19. A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in believing in God. -Huston Smith

  20. A person learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself. -George Bernard Shaw

  21. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill

  22. A philosophy major is one who can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. (I'm kidding; what's missing today are young people who can think) -Bruce Lee

  23. A politician is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. -James Freeman Clarke

  24. A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. -Joseph Stalin

  25. A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. -Samuel Johnson (I wish I could really believe that).

  26. All children are law students at a very young age: A child says, 'It's my toy.' That's property law. A child says, 'You promised me.' That's contract law. A child says, 'He hit me first.' That's criminal law. A child says, 'Daddy said I could.' That's constitutional law. -Harold J. Berman

  27. All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. -Michael Carr

  28. All of life is six to five against. -Damon Runyon

  29. All the presidents is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. -Harry S Truman

  30. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. -William Shakespeare

  31. All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. - Bill (you know who)

  32. An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. -Dan Rather

  33. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. -the prophet, Micah 4:3

  34. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists. – Father Mapple to the seamen in Melville’s “Moby Dick”

  35. And this too shall pass away ... "It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. So they presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses, how chastening in the hour of pride, how consoling in the depths of affliction." -Abraham Lincoln

  36. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  37. Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. -Richard Nixon

  38. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain -and most do. -Dale Carnegie

  39. Anyone could be unhappy; true achievement lay in struggling to be happy. -Dennis Prager (was my student in 1961 and in spite of that, he now is a famous author and radio personality).

  40. Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. -David Broder

  41. As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. -Leonardo da Vinci

  42. At times it may be necessary to temporarily accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. -Margaret Mead

  43. Be careful about reading health books; you may die of a misprint. -Mark Twain

  44. Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none. -Benjamin Franklin

  45. Be good and you will be lonesome. -Mark Twain

  46. Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -Theodor Seuss Geisel, "Dr. Seuss"

  47. Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. -Voltaire

  48. Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. -Lyndon B. Johnson

  49. Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole. -Mclandburgh Wilson

  50. By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell, and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. -Adolf Hitler

  51. By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education. ... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments. -Russell Baker

  52. Character is what you are in the dark. -John Whorfin

  53. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. -Confucius

  54. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. -Pope John XXIII

  55. Different people flourish at different times and in different environments. -Cliff Hess, Professor of Communications in Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY

  56. Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. -Oscar Wilde

  57. Do I believe God is going to take away my illness when he turned an entirely deaf ear to the six million Jews who went into the gas chambers? -Karen Armstrong

  58. Don't be humble; you are not that great. -Golda Meir

  59. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson

  60. Don't let it be forgot / That once there was a spot / For one brief shining moment / That was known as Camelot. –King Arthur in the Lerner and Lowe Broadway Show, "Camelot"

  61. Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -Robert Benchley

  62. Each particular spark, each individual soul, is unique and special, in terms of its essence, its capacity, and what is demanded of it. No two souls coincide in their actions, their functions, and their paths. No one should can take the place of another, and even the greatest of the great cannot fill the special role, the particular place, of another that may be the smallest of the small. From this notion, incidentally, derives Judaism's profound respect for human life. The life of a person is something that has no possible substitute or exchange; nothing and no one can take its place. –Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz)

  63. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -William Butler Yates, Irish poet and dramatist

  64. Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. -Ambrose Bierce

  65. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost

  66. Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people. -Mary Kay

  67. Everything can be taken away from man but one thing; the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. -Victor Frankl

  68. Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. -Samuel Johnson

  69. Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno

  70. Family = (F)ather (A)nd (M)other (I) (L)ove (Y)ou. -Dwayne McMurren Sr.

  71. For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner, on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer

  72. For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. -Doug Larson

  73. For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money. -Arne Garborg

  74. For more than two centuries, from the American and French Revolutions to the collapse of Soviet Communism, world politics revolved around eminently political problems. War and revolutions, class and social justice, race and national identity – these were the questions that divided us. Today, we have progressed to the point where our problems again resemble those of the 16th century, as we find ourselves entangled in conflicts over competing revelations, dogmatic purity, and divine duty. -Mark Lilla (professor of the humanities at Columbia University)

  75. Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. -Suzanne Necker

  76. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. -Sir Winston Churchill ... And what are prepositions? (Taken from Wordsmith.org) "They are little words, such as in, to, of, up, for, etc., though they are not always a single syllable, the position themselves before a noun (or pronoun). There are some pretty long ones: amongst, concerning, notwithstanding. And there are some fancy prepositions (contra, cum, a la, and so on). Often we see some of the uncommon prepositions tell the nouns: "Me first." And a note about ending a sentence with a preposition; some believe there's something wrong with that. It's a myth. One can find sentences ending with preps in the lines of some of the finest writers in history: Chaucer, Swift, Kipling, Shakespeare and so on. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on.' Now try rephrasing that line from The Tempest and ee what inelegant glob results. This canard about no-prepositions-at-the-end belongs in the same dustbin as 'Thou shalt not split an infinitive.' So the next time people fault you for ending a sentence with a preposition, ask them: 'What are you talking about?'"

  77. Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. -C.W. Ceram

  78. Get the facts first. You can distort them later. -Mark Twain

  79. Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. -Keith Richards, the Rolling Stone who's lived almost every day as though it were his last -and looks it

  80. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. -Jesus (Matthew 7:6, King James Version)
  81. God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting. – Daniel reading the handwriting on the wall, Book of Daniel (5: 1–6, 25–8)

  82. Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune. -Plutarch

  83. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. -Leo Tolstoy

  84. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)

  85. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. -George Burns

  86. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.. -Aristotle

  87. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron. -George Carlin

  88. He could take them on with half his brain tied behind his back. You can only imagine how super-sensational, mega-magnificent, and ultra-fantastic he would be if he were one hundred percent. -Stanley Gershbein (the first part partially quoting Rush Limbaugh)

  89. Hell is other people. -Jean-Paul Sartre

  90. Here and there in the midst of American society you meet with men full of a fanatical and almost wild spirtualism, which hardly exists in Europe. From time to time strange sects arise which endeavor to strike out extraordinary paths to eternal happiness. Religious insanity is very common in the United States. -Alexis de Tocqueville
  92. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. -W.C. Fields

  93. How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? -Paul Sweeney

  94. Humans enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals, and have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, wear them, and eat them, without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. -Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan

  95. Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. –Paul Rodriguez

  96. I always enjoyed watching John Wayne, but it never occurred to me until I spoke with Indians how corrosive and damaging and destructive his movies were; most Hollywood movies were... I think he's been enormously instrumental in perpetuating this view of the Indian as a savage, ferocious, destructive force. He's made us believe things about the Indian that were never true and perpetuated the myth about how wonderful the frontiersmen were and how decent and honorable we all were. -Marlon Brando

  97. I am not a teacher, but an awakener. -Robert Frost

  98. I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. -Emily Bronte

  99. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed. -Dalai Lama

  100. I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now, as I shall not pass this way again. -William Penn

  101. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature; let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -Stephen Grellet (seems there's another version of this with another author; see next quote)

  102. I feel that all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. -Admiral Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor

  103. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -Groucho Marx

    [Julius] Groucho Marx (1890-1977). Born in New York City, this Jewish American comedian was noted for organizing his brothers Harpo, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo into the Marx Brothers and created classic comedy Broadway plays and later films such as Duck Soup, and Animal Crackers.

  104. I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. -Thomas Edison

  105. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Confucius

  106. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude, -Henry David Thoreau

  107. I never knew so young a body with so old a head. -William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "The Merchant of Venice"

  108. I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals. -Andy Rooney

  109. I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman. -Lucretia Mott

  110. I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and, and claw, but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch. -Norman Bates (in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie, Psycho)

  111. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. -Gilda Radner

  112. I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not. -Lucille Ball

  113. If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. -Michel de Montaigne

  114. If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. -Socrates

  115. If everybody in the whole world was properly fed and nobody was rich the total sum of human happiness would probably be more than the current situation in which a few have to cope with the problems of affluence while the many cope with destitution.

  116. If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking. -George S. Patton, Jr

  117. If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." -Ann Landers

  118. If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a G-d who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is G-d, G-d, G-d, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. -Isaac Asimov

  119. If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture -that is immortality enough for me. -Edward Abbey

  120. If passion drives, let reason hold the reins. -Benjamin Franklin

  121. If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. -Horace G. Hutchinson

  122. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -Abraham Maslow

  123. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. It it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. -E.B. White

  124. If we make health our main concern we have fallen ill. We have become hypochondriacs. -Victor Frankl

  125. If you cannot understand the real reasons behind your actions then you are not really in charge of your life. -Martin Willett

  126. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -Hermann Hesse

  127. If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon. -Alan Loy McGinnis

  128. Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in. -Sam Harris

  129. Imagine human beings who first become aware of themselves in a world not of their own making. Their world has unknown origins and behaves in a regular fashion, so they wonder why that is. They know that the things that they themselves fashion behave in a predictable manner because they conceive and construct them with some end in mind. They stretch the bow, the arrow flies; that is why they were made. So, by analogy, it is not difficult for them to assume that the cosmic order was constructed for a purpose, reflecting its maker's will. By following this analogy, they begin to have ideas about that maker, about his intentions, and therefore about his personality. –Mark Lilla (professor of the humanities at Columbia University)

  130. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -George Orwell

  131. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  132. In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. -Thomas Jefferson

  133. In order to make an apple pie from scratch; you must first create the universe. -Carl Sagan

  134. In our everyday lives, in many different spheres, we find ourselves in a position to affect, to inspire and to help those around us. When presented with such opportunities, it is not sufficient to help someone up just long enough for them to fall down again, requiring further help, ad infinitum. (Hopefully we have to give the person enough strength and enough power to remain up by himself). -Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg

  135. In the beginning, there was Man who created Santa in his own image. Do you still believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy? If you don't, why not? -Farzad Roohi

  136. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. -Eleanor Roosevelt

  137. In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. -Robert G. Ingersoll

  138. Inherited wealth is a misfortune that merely serves to dull man's faculties. -Alfred Nobel

  139. Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable? -Kahlil Gibran

  140. It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -Richard Feynman

  141. It is a good idea to bear in mind at all times that what the public asks for, what they actually want and what would be best for them are often very different propositions. To really inspire the public to your vision you must talk of features but always link them to real benefits. -Martin Willett

  142. It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. -Rollo May

  143. It is better to give than receive...especially advice. -Mark Twain

  144. It is better to have and not need than to need and not have. –John Iacono (amateur philosopher)

  145. It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. -Andre Gide

  146. It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. -Aeschylus

  147. It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. -H.L. Mencken

  148. It is much more disheartening to have to steal, than to be stolen from. -Boris Lermontov (played by Anton Walbrook) in the 1948 movie, Red Shoes

  149. It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. "È necessario a chi dispone una republica, ed ordina leggi in quella, prassuppoie tutti gli nomini rei, e che li abbiano sempre a usare la malignità dello animo loro, qualunque volta ne abbiano libera occasione." -Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513

  150. It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. -John Gray

  151. It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power. -Buddha

  152. It is not true that life is one damn thing after another....It's one damn thing over and over. -Edna St. Vincent Millay

  153. It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. -Johann W. von Goethe

  154. It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. -Sydney Smith

  155. It is with our passions as with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. -Roger L'Estrange

  156. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -Walter Lippmann

  157. It restates the negativeness of the universe, the hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of Man forced to live in a barren, Godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos. –Museum Girl to Woody Allen when asked what the Jackson Pollack painting says to her. His response to her was, "What are you doing Saturday night?" She answers "Committing suicide." And he says, "What about Friday night? (from the movie, "Play It Again, Sam", Paramount Pictures, 1972)

  158. It seems to me hilarious that our government put the face of Elvis Presley on a postage stamp after he died from an overdose of drugs. His fans don't mention that because they don't want to give up their myths. They ignore the fact that he was a drug addict and claim he invented rock 'n' roll when in fact he took it from black culture; they had been singing that way for years before he came along, copied them and became a star. -Marlon Brando

  159. It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. -Miguel de Cervantes

  160. It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals. -Esther Warner Dendel

  161. It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. -Mick Jagger

  162. It's noble to be good. It's nobler to teach others to be good, and less trouble. -Mark Twain

  163. It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. -Millard Fuller

  164. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. -Benjamin Franklin

  165. Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are G-d. -Jean Rostand

  166. Knowing when you have no chance of winning, makes you a winner already; you can now go forward with your life. -Beth Subrine, a mystical swami in Tibet

  167. La commedia è finita. -Pagliacci

  168. Laughing people are not necessarily happy, and a crying man is not necessarily sad. – Gunnar Dar

  169. Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards. -Sören Kierkegaard

  170. Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. -Ben Franklin

  171. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, and stumble from defeat to defeat. -Anais Ninn

  172. Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player ihat struts and frets his hour upon the stage fnd then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. – Macbeth (Act 5, scene 5)

  173. Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -John Lennon

  174. Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions. -Yahia Lababidi

  175. Literature is not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood, singing their litanies in empty churches. Nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, these tinhorn mendicants of low-caloric despair. – John Steinbeck, 1962, in his acceptance speech when receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature

  176. Look out for #1 and don't step in #2. -Forrest Gump

  177. Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. -Christopher Morley

  178. Love can sometimes be magic ... but magic can sometimes just be an illusion. -Javan

  179. Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint Exupery

  180. Love your neighbor, but don't pull down your hedge. -Benjamin Franklin

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