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post #61 of 1798
Fits my current mood:

Don't trouble trouble until troubles trouble you...
post #62 of 1798
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."

-Muhammad Ali
post #63 of 1798
"It's important to me that money not be important to me." Les Brown
post #64 of 1798
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A good reputation is precious, but a good character is priceless.
post #65 of 1798
"So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay your welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it."

-Richard
post #66 of 1798
Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
post #67 of 1798
Slowly slowly catchy monkey ......
I don't know where this one came from but I've always known it.
post #68 of 1798
I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

Pearce
post #69 of 1798
I am not young enough to know everything-------Oscar Wilde

To err is human, but it feels divine-----------------Mae West
post #70 of 1798
When you come to a fork in the road, take it -- Yogi Berra
post #71 of 1798
"We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free."

-Bill Hicks
post #72 of 1798
When someone tells you who they are, believe them. - Oprah Winfrey, by way of Maya Angelou, I think.
post #73 of 1798
Two of my recent favorites:

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

- ?

"When I was five years old, my mother always told me happiness was the key to life. When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life."

- John Lennon
post #74 of 1798
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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde.
post #75 of 1798
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
post #76 of 1798
"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too."

-Mencken
post #77 of 1798
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When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
post #78 of 1798
"Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action."
(Ernest Hemingway)
post #79 of 1798
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."

-Mencken
post #80 of 1798
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
post #81 of 1798
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

-Hassan-i Sabbah
post #82 of 1798
A fool and his money are soon parted.
post #83 of 1798
Trust everyone, but always cut the cards
---Benny Binion
post #84 of 1798
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Great minds discuss ideas. Good minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
post #85 of 1798
^^ Ohhh I like that one.

"One of the rarest things that people do is think. I don't know why we don't do it more often. It doesn't cost anything. Think about that."
post #86 of 1798
Nothing is permanent except change.

HERACLITUS.
post #87 of 1798
One of the most beautiful

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
Hermann Hesse, Demian
post #88 of 1798
The sayings in my signature. Plus:

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. --Howard Thurman

You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass. --Charles Oakley
post #89 of 1798
"Change ain't lookin' for friends. Change calls the tune we dance to."

-Al Swearengen
post #90 of 1798
"Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed."
post #91 of 1798
The world is divided in two. There are people who wash their hands before going to the toilet and others who wash them after.
post #92 of 1798
See everything , overlook a lot , correct a little .
Pope John XXIII
post #93 of 1798
Claudia: I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?
Guido: Because he no longer believes in it.
Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.
Guido: Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.
Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.
Guido: And above all because I don't feel like telling another pile of lies.
Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.

(Dialogue from "8 1/2" [1963], Federico Fellini)
post #94 of 1798
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The art of conversation lies in the ability to disagree without being disagreeable.
post #95 of 1798
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”

Will SMith.
post #96 of 1798
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
SF
post #97 of 1798
There is no armor against fate.
post #98 of 1798
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me."

Golda Meir
post #99 of 1798
Quote:
Originally Posted by heavenscent1 View Post

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me."

Golda Meir

This is a quotation of Hillel from Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) 1:14
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?"
post #100 of 1798
Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet.

-Fortune Cookie
post #101 of 1798
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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
post #102 of 1798
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
post #103 of 1798
Quote:
Originally Posted by SmellsLike View Post

This is a quotation of Hillel from Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) 1:14
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?"

Thanks for the correction. The full version is even better.
post #104 of 1798
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
post #105 of 1798
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Oscar Wilde.
post #106 of 1798
I know you want me

pitbull.
post #107 of 1798
The most wasted day of all, is the one in which we have not laughed.
post #108 of 1798
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy. -Henry Kissinger
post #109 of 1798
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Revenge is a dish best served cold.
post #110 of 1798
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets pass through.
post #111 of 1798
"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see."

-Ben Franklin
post #112 of 1798
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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
post #113 of 1798
A friend to all is a friend to none.
post #114 of 1798
"War and sexism will cease to be practiced when their productive, reproductive, and ecological functions are fulfilled by less costly alternatives. for the first time in history such alternatives are within reach. If we are unable to use it will not be a failure of our nature but our intelligence and will"

Marvin Harris. Cannibals and Kings(1977)
post #115 of 1798
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Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
post #116 of 1798
"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
Henry Miller
post #117 of 1798
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
post #118 of 1798
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare
post #119 of 1798
"The big print giveth and the small print taketh away."

-Tom Waits
post #120 of 1798
" If you can dream - and not make dreams your master "

From "If" (1895) by Rudyard Kipling---

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm
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