Great Quotes for Life
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
--- Winnie the Pooh
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
---Charles Caleb Colton
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
---unknown
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
---Mencius
"Friends are (insert deity of choice) way of taking care of us."
---unknown
"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
---Stone Temple Pilots
"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
---Dave Matthew's band
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them."
---unknown
"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
---unknown
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."
--- Tim McGraw
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
---Lee Iacocca
"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
---Nigerian Proverb
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
---unknown
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
--- Winnie the Pooh
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
---Charles Caleb Colton
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
---unknown
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
---Mencius
"Friends are (insert deity of choice) way of taking care of us."
---unknown
"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
---Stone Temple Pilots
"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
---Dave Matthew's band
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them."
---unknown
"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
---unknown
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."
--- Tim McGraw
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
---Lee Iacocca
"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
---Nigerian Proverb
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
---unknown
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- Saint Augustine (354-430)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I think it would be a good idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny ..."
Isaac Asimov
grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel."
-- Polonius, in Hamlet
Brad Forrister
Director of Publishing
M. Lee Smith Publishers
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
--Mark Twain
Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
--Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
--Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
--Mark Twain
And finally, for my political friends:
Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain