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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
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
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today is my day to laugh loud - laugh often
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
Play as often as you can.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our connection with Spirit is unbreakable, but often imperceptible.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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