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Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
You may as well laugh at life,
because it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
So confident am I in the intentions,
as well as wisdom, of the government,
that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done,
either cannot, or ought not to be done.
- Thomas Jefferson
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
Rights that do not flow from duty
well performed are not worth having.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Every actual State is corrupt.
Good men must not obey laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Ambition has one heel nailed in well,
though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Lao Tzu
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Well, when you come down to it,
I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
You are defined by your habits - choose well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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