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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
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There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
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
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- 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
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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