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What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
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Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Jesus was all right,
but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
- John Lennon
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
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
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated,
is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
I despise people who go to the gutter
on either the right or the left
and hurl rocks at those in the center.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
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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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