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Is it bigger than breadbox?
- the early television show Twenty Questions
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec 
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Crazy is walking down the street
with half a cantaloupe on your head,
muttering; "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster."
- the movie Spy Hard (1996)
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What If Every Day Were Your Day -
Celebrate Whimsey Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
Humor is reason gone mad.
- Groucho Marx
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
- Lewis Carroll
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
A bank is a place that will lend you money
if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
Laugh at Life - it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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