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Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Frankly, I'm too scared to ask about the frog.
- the movie Tangled (2010)
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
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
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
When you are right you cannot be too radical;
when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The people are hungry:
It is because those in authority
eat up too much in taxes.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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