Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.
There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.
It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.
If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.
I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.
You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.
What good is love if you never ask anything of it?
The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.
The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.
If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.
Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.
Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.
Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'
As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.
Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.
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