- A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
- A jug fills drop by drop.
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
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A person
is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
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A man
wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
- A lot of people mistake a short memory with a clear conscience.
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A little
inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Quotes Potpourri
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Potpourri
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Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Wise people think all they say; fools say all they
think.
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War does not determine who is right – only who is
left.
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you
are.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we
are.
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We never really grow up; we only learn how to act
in public.
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When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the
wrong lane.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least
expect generally happens.
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True friendship comes when the silence between two
people is comfortable.
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them
loses his mind and gets another one.
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
One Liners
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A
beautiful relationship does not depend upon how good we understand someone but
on how well we avoid misunderstandings.
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A city is
a large community where people are lonesome together.
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A
conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
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A
conservative is a man who sits and thinks. Mostly sits.
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A creative
man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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A cynic is
a man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
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A diplomat
is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
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A drunk
mans’ words are a sober mans’ thoughts.
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A fine is
a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
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A friend
is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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A generation
which ignores history has no past – and no future.
Monday, 21 May 2012
Easy - Difficult
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Easy to occupy a place in the
telephone directory. Difficult to occupy the heart of somebody.
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Easy to judge the errors of
others. Difficult to recognize our own errors.
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Easy to hurt those whom we
love. Difficult to heal those wounds.
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Easy to forgive others. Difficult
to ask for forgiveness.
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Easy to exhibit victory. Difficult
to assume defeat with dignity.
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Easy to dream every night. Difficult
to fight for a dream.
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Easy to pray every night. Difficult
to find God in the smallest of things.
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Easy to say we love. Difficult
to demonstrate it every day.
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Easy to criticize everybody. Difficult
to better / perfect ourselves.
- Easy to think of improving. Difficult to stop thinking & really do it.
- Easy to receive. Difficult to give
Friday, 18 May 2012
Relationship Quotes
- Relationship has boundaries; if you want a lasting relationship never ever try to cross those boundaries.
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Relationship doesn’t make love, love makes
relationship.
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When you stop expecting people to be
perfect, you can like them for who they are.
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What we wait around a lifetime for with one
person, we can find in a moment with someone else
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Relationships don’t always make sense.
Especially from the outside
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When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff
that ends up not getting said
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When you stop expecting people to be
perfect, you can like them for who they are.
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Assumptions are the termites of
relationships.
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I don't want to be your other half. I
believe that one and one make two
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There is greatness in doing something you
hate for the sake of someone you love
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Cheating and lying aren't struggles,
they're reasons to break up
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Why Ask Why
- If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
- If nothing ever sticks to teflon, how do they make teflon stick to the pan?
- Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
- Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
- Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
- Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
- Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
- You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
- Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
- You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
- Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Mother Teresa on Life
- Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
- Life is beauty, admire it.
- Life is a dream, realize it.
- Life is a challenge, meet it.
- Life is a duty, complete it.
- Life is a promise, fulfill it.
- Life is sorrow, overcome it.
- Life is a struggle, accept it.
- Life is a tragedy, confront it.
- Life is luck, make it.
- Life is life, fight for it.
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