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Keep on the sunny side

Friendship is precious,
not only in the shade,
but in the sunshine of life;
and thanks to a benevolent
arrangement of things,
the greater part of life
is sunshine.
-- Thomas Jefferson

 


 

Quotable Quotes

 

  • Confucius ~ Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.
  • Abraham Lincoln ~ It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
  • John Lennon ~ Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans.
  • Mark Twain ~ Be careful while reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
  • Ferris Beuller ~ Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around sometime, you might miss it.
  • Chinese Proverb ~ He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
  • Mark Twain ~ Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
  • George Bernard Shaw ~ If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
  • Mahatma Gandhi ~ Truth never damages a cause that is just.
  • Groucho Marx ~ Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
  • George Bernard Shaw ~ People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
  • John Ruskin ~ No human being, however great or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
  • Walt Whitman ~ Give me the silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
  • Pebbles and Bam Bam ~ Let the sun shine in and chase away your blues. Frowners never win and smilers never lose.
  • Shakespeare ~ How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~ So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
  • Maya Angelou ~ If you don't like something - change it. If you can't change it, change the way you look at it.
  • Albert Einstein ~ It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.
  • Thomas Alva Edison ~ Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
  • Albert Einstein ~ Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
  • John Wheeler ~ As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
  • T. S. Eliot ~ We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
  • Bertrand Russell ~ Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
  • George Bernard Shaw ~ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
  • Albert Einstein ~ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
  • Niels Bohr ~ The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
  • Robert Herrick ~ You say, to me-wards, your affection's strong; pray love me little, so you love me long.
  • Grantland Rice ~ For when that one great scorer comes to mark against your name, he marks not that you won or lost but how you played the game.
  • Galileo Galilei ~ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
  • Mahatma Gandhi ~ You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
  • Alan Kay ~ The best way to predict the future is to invent it.