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A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

I'll start this off again....

"You may be only one person in the entire world, but if you're really lucky you might be the entire world to one person."


.....now, follow this example, and please keep it nice.
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Reply #626 Top
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. - Albert Einstein
Reply #627 Top
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
- Clarence Thomas
Reply #628 Top
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
- Tom Stoppard
Reply #629 Top
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
- John Constable
Reply #630 Top
#629 by JourneyMan Fuzzy Logic


like that un for sure

Reply #631 Top
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams
Reply #632 Top
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- Eugene Delacroix
Reply #633 Top
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
- John Barrymore
Reply #634 Top
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- H. L. Mencken
Reply #635 Top
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Reply #636 Top
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Reply #637 Top
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
Reply #638 Top
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating
that the heart is at home.

Smile: if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Reply #639 Top
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

-- John Andrew Holmes

Reply #640 Top
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
- Anne Tyler
Reply #641 Top
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
- Henny Youngman
Reply #642 Top
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into
us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives
and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned
something from yesterday.

-- John Wayne

Reply #643 Top
GLOUCESTER
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

LADY ANNE
Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man:
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

GLOUCESTER
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

LADY ANNE
O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!

Richard III: Act 1

--W Shakespeare
Reply #645 Top

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

--Aristotle
Reply #646 Top
Bite the hand that feeds you and you will likely starve.....© Jafo
Reply #647 Top
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
- Eurpides

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- Charles DeGaulle

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
- Sydney Smith

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran
Reply #649 Top
"If everything seems to be going well, you obviously don't know what's going on." -- McIllvenna's Theory of Wrongness
Reply #650 Top
Matthijs....'confidence is that feeling you have, immediately BEFORE fully understanding the situation'...