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We are an impossibility

  We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. - Noel Coward Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. - Cicero Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell READ MORE

Suppose you were an idiot

  Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - G. K. Chesterton Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. - Tallulah Bankhead You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. - Oscar Wilde To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. - Peter Ustinov They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Sir Francis Bacon I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. - John D. Rockefeller Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. - Samuel Goldwyn READ M...

The world owes you nothing

  Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C. S. Lewis I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein The future will be better tomorrow. - Dan Quayle There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. - Sir Winston Churchill The future ain't what it used to be. - Yogi Berra We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now. - John F. Kennedy Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. - Charles M. Schulz READ MORE

The world is a tragedy

  Horace Walpole The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. - Alexander Hamilton To play it safe is not to play. - Robert Altman There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington The world is round; it has no point. - Adrienne E. Gusoff I think the world is run by 'C' students. - Al McGuire The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. - Albert Einstein All the world's a cage. - Jeanne Phillips All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey READ MORE

Hide not your talents

  Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. - John F. Kennedy Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915 You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero If you cannot convince them...

Laugh and the world laughs with you

  Image created by ChatGPT Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. - Soren Kierkegaard Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. - Mahatma Gandhi Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. - Hippocrates, Decorum I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinio...