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"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
A healthy family is sacred territory.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
Courage atrophies from lack of use.
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
Everything you do or say is public relations.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me.
Fools rush in where fools have been before.
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.
How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table.
I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny.
If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?
If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.
If it is to be, it is up to me.
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there.
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.
If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.
In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal.
It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral.
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields and,
until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
My Karma ran over your dogma.
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
Not all those who wonder are lost.
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
The wages of sin are unreported.
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
There are people who make things happen,
those who watch what happens,
and those who wonder what happened.
There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing...
Use soft words and hard arguments.
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
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