Laugh and the world laughs with you

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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 opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

I would rather be accused of...

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. - William Shakespeare Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth. - Will Rogers Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D. Eisenhower I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. - Laurence J. Peter It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, the...

If we had no winter

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet, 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655 In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, sc. 3 [Spring is] when life's alive in everything. - Christina Rossetti An optimist is the human personification of spring. - Susan J. Bissonette Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. - Victor Hugo To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes Make not your thoughts your prisons. - William Sha...

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