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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some people regard private enterprise
as a predatory tiger to be shot.
Others look on it as a cow they can milk.
Not enough people see it
as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
- Winston Churchill
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Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley
Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows.
Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength,
he nourishes himself from this fusion,
and then he rises and goes into the world,
into his work, into battle, into art.
He is not lonely. He is busy.
The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion.
The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty.
Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure
in which she has bathed,
and a charge of electric joy at contact with another.
When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled,
each act of love a a taking of man within her,
an act of birth and rebirth, of child-bearing and man-bearing.
Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew
with a desire to act, to BE.
But for woman, the climax is not in the birth,
but in the moment the man rests inside of her.
- Anais Nin
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Frankly, I'm too scared to ask about the frog.
- the movie Tangled (2010)
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
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
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
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)
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
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
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
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
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
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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