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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason,
than that of blind-folded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous
She drove me to drink.
That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
- the movie Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism.
To steal from many is research.
- Anonymous
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