Quotes I live by...

(or at least like)

• "A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it."
• "When all else fails, tell the truth" - Mark Twain
• "Nothing exists in itself" - Hermann Melville
• "People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won by a rat."
• "Inside every man there is a poet who died young."
• "One does not make friends, one recognizes them."
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Einstein
• "Be slow in choosing friends. Be slower in changing."
• "Freedom is the right to be wrong, not to do wrong."
• "There may be times where we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time where we fail to protest it."
• "To cease to think is to cease to exist" - Ben Franklin
• "We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it." - Sherlock
• "Of all passions, fear weakens judgment the most."
• "The purpose of life is to find your talent"
• "The goal in life is to perfect you talent"
  "The meaning of life is when you give your talent away."
• "If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." - James F. Clark
• "A man surprised is half beaten."
• "Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
• Alas! they had been friends in youth;
  But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy live in realms above;
  And life is thorny, and youth is vain,
  And to be wroth with one we trust
  Doth work like madness in the brain. 
  - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Life! we ’ve been long together
  Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
  ’T is hard to part when friends are dear,-
  Perhaps ’t will cost a sigh, a tear;
  Then steal away, give little warning,
  Choose thine own time;
  Say not “Good night,” but in some brighter clime
  Bid me “Good morning.” 
  - Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld

• "Eagles may soar, but weasels never get caught in jet engines."
• "A closed mouth gathers no feet."
• "Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in."
• "There is a simple solution to every complex problem, but it is usually wrong."
• "One out of every 4 Americans is mentally unbalanced. Think of your 3 closest friends. If they seem okay, you are the one."
• "If you ever worry about missing the boat, remember the Titanic."
• "The truth shall set you free, but first it shall make you miserable."
• "The shortest distance between two points is always under construction."
• "If the shoe fits, its not for sale"
• "If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."
• "Nowadays, a wonder drug is one that has no effect on mice."
• "The freedom of any society varies proportionality to the volume of its laughter."
• "Only some of us can learn from other people's mistakes. The rest of us have to be the other people."
• "Might doesn't make right; it only makes history."
• "The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when your finished."
• "After all is said and done, along comes someone who wants to know what happened."
• "I love deadlines. Especially the wooshing sound they make as they fly by."
• "I have not yet begun to procrastinate!"
• "You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through chunky peanut butter!"
• "Too much agreement ruins conversation."
• "If you shoot first and ask questions later, you won't get many answers."
• "The cost of living has not affected its popularity."
• "My idea of an agreeable person is one who agrees with me."
• "The person with a closed mind often has an open mouth."
• "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." - Max West

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