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I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Success is often the result of taking
a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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