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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Let these cute quotes and sayings amuse you with their insights into the nature of life. Lighten up. Life doesn't have to be serious to be meaningful. Appreciate the light as well as the serious aspects of a great life.
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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-
Mark Twain
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
-
Charles M. Schulz
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Humor is reason gone mad.
- Groucho Marx
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-
Napoleon Bonaparte
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
-
Woody Allen
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
-
George Eliot
The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train.
- Anonymous
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz' Peanuts comic
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate.
- Anonymous
Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Dalai Lama
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight Eisenhower
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
-
Mark Twain
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-
Woody Allen
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
- Anonymous
When you keep getting the wrong answers, try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When everything comes your way you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-
Mark Twain
The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you, it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous quote
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-
Mark Twain
Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
-
Carl Sandburg
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
A lifelong friend is someone you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
-
Oscar Wilde
Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
-
Truman Capote
When everything comes your way you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
-
Mark Twain
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
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