“Simple pleasures are life’s greatest treasures.” -Author Unknown
“Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be complex and wonderful.” -Author Unknown
“Some people want a big house, a fast car, and lots of money. Some people want a tiny cabin in the woods away from those kinds of people.” -Author Unknown
“There is no need to have it all, just make the best of what you have.” -Author Unknown
“Less is more.” -Robert Browning (1812 - 1889): “Men and Women” (1855), ‘Andrea del Sarto’
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” -Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935))
“There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” -Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900)
“Seek simplicity and distrust it.” -Alfred Whitehead (Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947))
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” -Bruce Lee (pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan (1940 - 1973))
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” -Frédéric Chopin: as quoted in Joshua Fost: “If Not God, Then What?” (2007), page 93
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“You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790 - 1793), ‘Proverbs of Hell’
“To simplify complications is the first essential of success.” -George Earle Buckle
“Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplify, simplify.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Walden” (1854)
“All the good things of the world are no further good to us than they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.” -Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe (1659 - 1731))
“We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
“Anything simple always interests me.” -David Hockney
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.” -Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus (about 99 B.C.E. - about 55 B.C.E.))
“Life is beautiful in its simplicity.” -Thomas Matthiessen
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“We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.” -Anna C. Brackett (born 1836)
“Did it ever occur to you that there’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another?” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985)): “Quo Vadimus? Or the Case for the Bicycle” (1938), ‘The Adelphi’
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.” -Author Unknown
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“Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold, holds you.” -Tom Robbins (Thomas Eugene ‘Tom’ Robbins (born 1932)): “Still Life with Woodpecker” (1980)
“A lean horse runs a long race.” -Edgar Barzellai Howell
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“The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
Overheard: I can’t get enough minimalism.
“Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be complex and wonderful.” -Author Unknown
“Some people want a big house, a fast car, and lots of money. Some people want a tiny cabin in the woods away from those kinds of people.” -Author Unknown
“There is no need to have it all, just make the best of what you have.” -Author Unknown
“Less is more.” -Robert Browning (1812 - 1889): “Men and Women” (1855), ‘Andrea del Sarto’
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” -Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935))
“There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” -Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900)
“Seek simplicity and distrust it.” -Alfred Whitehead (Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947))
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” -Bruce Lee (pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan (1940 - 1973))
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” -Frédéric Chopin: as quoted in Joshua Fost: “If Not God, Then What?” (2007), page 93
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“You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790 - 1793), ‘Proverbs of Hell’
“To simplify complications is the first essential of success.” -George Earle Buckle
“Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplify, simplify.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Walden” (1854)
“All the good things of the world are no further good to us than they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.” -Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe (1659 - 1731))
“We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
“Anything simple always interests me.” -David Hockney
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.” -Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus (about 99 B.C.E. - about 55 B.C.E.))
“Life is beautiful in its simplicity.” -Thomas Matthiessen
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“We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.” -Anna C. Brackett (born 1836)
“Did it ever occur to you that there’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another?” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985)): “Quo Vadimus? Or the Case for the Bicycle” (1938), ‘The Adelphi’
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.” -Author Unknown
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“Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold, holds you.” -Tom Robbins (Thomas Eugene ‘Tom’ Robbins (born 1932)): “Still Life with Woodpecker” (1980)
“A lean horse runs a long race.” -Edgar Barzellai Howell
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“The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
Overheard: I can’t get enough minimalism.
Can minimalism be taken too far?
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 17): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167), Book VII, 67
“Anything can be made to appear simple just by refusing to see the complexities.” -Author Unknown
“The less you possess, the freer you are.” -Author Unknown
“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.” -Doris Janzen Longacre (born 1940)
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.): “The Republic” (about 380 B.C.E.), ‘Book 3’
“Details are all there are.” -Maezumi Roshi
“I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don’t desire.” -Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
“I like to go to Marshall Field’s in Chicago just to see how many things there are in the world that I do not want.” -Mother Mary Madeleva: “My First Seventy Years” (1959)
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“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” -Vernon Howard (born 1918)
“A little is as much as a lot, if it is enough.” -Steve Brown
“Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900): “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” (1885)
“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.” -George Santayana (Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863 - 1952)): “Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies” (1922), ‘The Irony of Liberalism’
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” -Charles Mingus
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“Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -William Gaddis: “The Recognition” (1955), page 457
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” -John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” -G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936))
“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
“You never know what you can do without until you try.” -Franklin Pierce Adams (1881 - 1960): as quoted in Louis E. Boone, editor: “Quotable Business” (1992)
“That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.” -Plutarch (C.E. 46 - C.E. 120))
“Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual.” -Linda Breen Pierce (born 1947)
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“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - C.E. 135)
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply as Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it.” -Edsger W. Dijkstra (Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930 - 2002)): “On the Nature of Computing Science” (1984)
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” [translation to English]
“Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher.” [original French]
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
“The road to minimalism: Give away one thing each day, whether it’s a paperclip or an article of clothing, until you have reached an amount of possessions you need to function in life, and then stop because there’s no sense in also giving away what you need in order to live a life and to function in society.” -Author Unknown
“To get more out of life, start by eliminating everything that is nonessential.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.” -Elise Boulding (born 1920)
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“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.)
“It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.” -Steve Jobs (Steven Paul ‘Steve’ Jobs (1955 - 2011))
“The more things you have, the more weight you carry.” -Author Unknown
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 17): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167), Book VII, 67
“Anything can be made to appear simple just by refusing to see the complexities.” -Author Unknown
“The less you possess, the freer you are.” -Author Unknown
“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.” -Doris Janzen Longacre (born 1940)
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.): “The Republic” (about 380 B.C.E.), ‘Book 3’
“Details are all there are.” -Maezumi Roshi
“I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don’t desire.” -Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
“I like to go to Marshall Field’s in Chicago just to see how many things there are in the world that I do not want.” -Mother Mary Madeleva: “My First Seventy Years” (1959)
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“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” -Vernon Howard (born 1918)
“A little is as much as a lot, if it is enough.” -Steve Brown
“Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900): “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” (1885)
“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.” -George Santayana (Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863 - 1952)): “Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies” (1922), ‘The Irony of Liberalism’
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” -Charles Mingus
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“Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -William Gaddis: “The Recognition” (1955), page 457
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” -John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” -G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936))
“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
“You never know what you can do without until you try.” -Franklin Pierce Adams (1881 - 1960): as quoted in Louis E. Boone, editor: “Quotable Business” (1992)
“That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.” -Plutarch (C.E. 46 - C.E. 120))
“Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual.” -Linda Breen Pierce (born 1947)
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“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - C.E. 135)
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply as Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it.” -Edsger W. Dijkstra (Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930 - 2002)): “On the Nature of Computing Science” (1984)
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” [translation to English]
“Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher.” [original French]
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
“The road to minimalism: Give away one thing each day, whether it’s a paperclip or an article of clothing, until you have reached an amount of possessions you need to function in life, and then stop because there’s no sense in also giving away what you need in order to live a life and to function in society.” -Author Unknown
“To get more out of life, start by eliminating everything that is nonessential.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.” -Elise Boulding (born 1920)
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“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.)
“It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.” -Steve Jobs (Steven Paul ‘Steve’ Jobs (1955 - 2011))
“The more things you have, the more weight you carry.” -Author Unknown
Between the minimalistic one-eyed smiley face and the extravagant three-eyed smiley face, we find the just-right two-eyed smiley face . . .
“’Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free.” -Joseph Brackett (Joseph Brackett, Junior (1797 - 1882)): “Simple Gifts” (1848) song, stanza 1, line 1
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” -Edwin Teale (Edwin Way Teale (1899 - 1980))
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“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.” -Douglas Horton
“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” -Katharine Fullerton Gerould (born 1879)
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“Who lives content with little possesses everything.” -Boileau
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))
“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” -Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976)
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“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” -Socrates (470 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.)
“The great artist is the simplifier.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821 - 1881)
“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
“If it doesn’t add to your life, it doesn’t belong in your life.” -Author Unknown
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the Earth and all temporary nature.” -Thomas à Kempis (1380 - 1471)
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” -Lao Tzu (about 604 B.C.E. - about 531 B.C.E.)
“There can be such a thing as too much of a good thing, as for example, having bread that is buttered on both sides.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.” -Ward Cunningham: “The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work” (19 January 2004)
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“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” -Joseph Brotherton (born 1783)
“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.” -Wumen Huikai (also known as Wu-Men (C.E. 1183 - C.E. 1260))
“I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.” -Publius Terentius Afer (also known as Terence (185 B.C.E. - 159 B.C.E.))
“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you can imagine.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“All the books extolling the simple life are written by men.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“The awkward richness of possibilities seems to shatter any possible coherent theory of simplicity.” -Slobkin
“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “San Diego Union-Tribune” (20 September 1930) newspaper
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“Only great minds can afford a simple style.” -Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842))
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit experience and the last effort of genius.” -George Sand (pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (1804 - 1876))
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” -Bruce Lee (pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan (1940 - 1973))
“You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961)): as quoted in Laurence J. Peter: “The Peter Pyramid”
“All that is complex is useless and all that is useful is simple.” -Author Unknown
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.” -C. W. Ceran
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.” -Lope de Vega (born 1562)
“The simplest things are often the truest.” -Richard Bach (born 1936)
“The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.” -Duane Elgin (born 1937)
This is MFOL! . . . a website so simple that even adults can figure it out . . .
“’Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free.” -Joseph Brackett (Joseph Brackett, Junior (1797 - 1882)): “Simple Gifts” (1848) song, stanza 1, line 1
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” -Edwin Teale (Edwin Way Teale (1899 - 1980))
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“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.” -Douglas Horton
“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” -Katharine Fullerton Gerould (born 1879)
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“Who lives content with little possesses everything.” -Boileau
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))
“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” -Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976)
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“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” -Socrates (470 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.)
“The great artist is the simplifier.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821 - 1881)
“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
“If it doesn’t add to your life, it doesn’t belong in your life.” -Author Unknown
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the Earth and all temporary nature.” -Thomas à Kempis (1380 - 1471)
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” -Lao Tzu (about 604 B.C.E. - about 531 B.C.E.)
“There can be such a thing as too much of a good thing, as for example, having bread that is buttered on both sides.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.” -Ward Cunningham: “The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work” (19 January 2004)
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“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” -Joseph Brotherton (born 1783)
“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.” -Wumen Huikai (also known as Wu-Men (C.E. 1183 - C.E. 1260))
“I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.” -Publius Terentius Afer (also known as Terence (185 B.C.E. - 159 B.C.E.))
“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you can imagine.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“All the books extolling the simple life are written by men.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“The awkward richness of possibilities seems to shatter any possible coherent theory of simplicity.” -Slobkin
“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “San Diego Union-Tribune” (20 September 1930) newspaper
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“Only great minds can afford a simple style.” -Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842))
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit experience and the last effort of genius.” -George Sand (pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (1804 - 1876))
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” -Bruce Lee (pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan (1940 - 1973))
“You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961)): as quoted in Laurence J. Peter: “The Peter Pyramid”
“All that is complex is useless and all that is useful is simple.” -Author Unknown
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.” -C. W. Ceran
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.” -Lope de Vega (born 1562)
“The simplest things are often the truest.” -Richard Bach (born 1936)
“The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.” -Duane Elgin (born 1937)
This is MFOL! . . . a website so simple that even adults can figure it out . . .
Bumper sticker: When In Danger Or In Doubt, Run In Circles, Scream, And Shout!
License plate on a brown Land Rover: ARF ARF.
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Bumper sticker: If You Can Read This, Thank A Teacher.
Bumper sticker: Be Alert - The World Needs More Lerts.
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Bumper sticker: Relish Today . . . Ketchup Tomorrow!
Bumper sticker: To Err Is Human, To Moo Bovine.
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Bumper sticker: The Truth Is Out There. It’s Just Not Very Well Indexed.
Bumper sticker: Don’t Wish For It - Work For It.
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Bumper sticker: I Souport Publik Edekasi8n.
Bumper sticker: If You Think I’m A Lousy Driver, Wait Until You See Me Putt.
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Bumper sticker: Save The Earth - It’s The Only Planet With Chocolate!
Bumper sticker: There Is No Shortcut To Anyplace Worth Going.
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Bumper sticker: Warning - This Vehicle Protected By Anti-Theft Sticker.
Bumper sticker: Buckle Up - It Makes It Harder For The Aliens To Suck You Out Of Your Car.
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Bumper sticker: Honk If You Like Peace And Quiet.
Bumper sticker: I Drive Way Too Fast To Worry About Cholesterol.
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Bumper sticker: Power To The People (seen on an electrician’s truck).
Bumper sticker: Help Stamp Out And Eradicate Superfluous Redundancy.
Bumper sticker: If You Lived In Your Car, You Would Be Home By Now.
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Bumper sticker: If You Can Read This Bumper Sticker You Are Driving Too Close.
Bumper sticker: Be Nice To Americans, Or We’ll Bring Our Style Of Democracy To Your Country!
Bumper sticker: So You’re A Feminist - Isn’t That Cute?
License plate on a brown Land Rover: ARF ARF.
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Bumper sticker: Be Alert - The World Needs More Lerts.
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Bumper sticker: To Err Is Human, To Moo Bovine.
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Bumper sticker: The Truth Is Out There. It’s Just Not Very Well Indexed.
Bumper sticker: Don’t Wish For It - Work For It.
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Bumper sticker: I Souport Publik Edekasi8n.
Bumper sticker: If You Think I’m A Lousy Driver, Wait Until You See Me Putt.
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Bumper sticker: Save The Earth - It’s The Only Planet With Chocolate!
Bumper sticker: There Is No Shortcut To Anyplace Worth Going.
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Bumper sticker: Honk If You Like Peace And Quiet.
Bumper sticker: I Drive Way Too Fast To Worry About Cholesterol.
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Bumper sticker: Power To The People (seen on an electrician’s truck).
Bumper sticker: Help Stamp Out And Eradicate Superfluous Redundancy.
Bumper sticker: If You Lived In Your Car, You Would Be Home By Now.
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Bumper sticker: If You Can Read This Bumper Sticker You Are Driving Too Close.
Bumper sticker: Be Nice To Americans, Or We’ll Bring Our Style Of Democracy To Your Country!
Bumper sticker: So You’re A Feminist - Isn’t That Cute?
Bumper sticker: How Many Roads Must A Man Travel Down Before He Admits He Is Lost?
Bumper sticker: Be The Kind Of Friend You’d Want to Have.
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Bumper sticker: You Have Enemies? Good - That Means You Stood Up For Something.
Bumper sticker: I’d Rather Be Fishing!
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Bumper sticker: My Other Vehicle Is A Romulan Warbird.
Bumper sticker: Caution - I Drive Like You Do!
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Bumper sticker on a Lamborghini: My Other Car Is A Lamborghini, Too!
Bumper sticker: Caution - Blind Person Driving! (seen on a venetian blind installer’s vehicle).
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Bumper sticker: I Owe, I Owe, So It’s Off To Work I Go!
License plate: YRU FAT (seen on weight-loss guru Richard Simmons’ vehicle).
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Bumper sticker: Honk If You Are A Bad Driver.
Bumper sticker: If Your Ship Hasn’t Come In . . . Swim Out To It!
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Bumper sticker: Eagles Don’t Flock.
Bumper sticker: I Don’t Repeat Gossip.
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Bumper sticker: I Do Whatever My Breakfast Cereal Tells Me To Do.
Bumper sticker: I Have Animal Magnetism. Every Time I Go Outside, Squirrels Stick To My Clothes.
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Bumper sticker: Turn Signals - Not Just For Smart People Anymore.
Bumper sticker: What If There Were No Hypothetical Questions?
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Bumper sticker: The Internet Is An Information Source Not A Lifestyle Choice.
Bumper sticker: Save The Whales! Trade Them For Valuable Prizes.
Bumper sticker: Be The Kind Of Friend You’d Want to Have.
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Bumper sticker: You Have Enemies? Good - That Means You Stood Up For Something.
Bumper sticker: I’d Rather Be Fishing!
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Bumper sticker: My Other Vehicle Is A Romulan Warbird.
Bumper sticker: Caution - I Drive Like You Do!
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Bumper sticker on a Lamborghini: My Other Car Is A Lamborghini, Too!
Bumper sticker: Caution - Blind Person Driving! (seen on a venetian blind installer’s vehicle).
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Bumper sticker: I Owe, I Owe, So It’s Off To Work I Go!
License plate: YRU FAT (seen on weight-loss guru Richard Simmons’ vehicle).
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Bumper sticker: Honk If You Are A Bad Driver.
Bumper sticker: If Your Ship Hasn’t Come In . . . Swim Out To It!
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Bumper sticker: Eagles Don’t Flock.
Bumper sticker: I Don’t Repeat Gossip.
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Bumper sticker: I Do Whatever My Breakfast Cereal Tells Me To Do.
Bumper sticker: I Have Animal Magnetism. Every Time I Go Outside, Squirrels Stick To My Clothes.
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Bumper sticker: Turn Signals - Not Just For Smart People Anymore.
Bumper sticker: What If There Were No Hypothetical Questions?
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Bumper sticker: The Internet Is An Information Source Not A Lifestyle Choice.
Bumper sticker: Save The Whales! Trade Them For Valuable Prizes.
Bumper sticker: Just Because You Are Paranoid Does Not Mean They Are Not Out To Get You.
Bumper sticker: I Am Speeding Because I Have To Get Someplace Before I Forget Where I Was Going!
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Bumper sticker: Follow Your Dreams Except That One You Had About Being A Waffle Farmer.
Bumper sticker: I Is A College Graduate
Bumper sticker: People Who Anger You Control You.
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Have you read the bumper sticker that reads, “Ban All Bumper Stickers!”?
Bumper sticker: It Is Bad Luck To Be Superstitious.
Bumper sticker: Humans Aren’t The Only Species On Earth, We Just Act Like It.
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Bumper sticker: Honk If You Have No Control Over Your Impulses.
License plate on the vehicle of a sewing machine dealership: SEW BIZ.
Bumper sticker: Don’t Follow Me - I’m Lost, Too!
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Bumper sticker: It’s Lonely At The Top, But You Eat Better!
Bumper sticker: Quantum Mechanics Is The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of.
Bumper sticker: Mistakes Are Proof That You Are Trying.
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Bumper sticker: I Work To Buy A Car To Go To Work
Bumper sticker: Men Are From Earth. Women Are From Earth. Deal With It.
Bumper sticker: What If The Hokey Pokey Really Is What It’s All About?
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Bumper sticker: Cole’s Law: Thinly Sliced Cabbage.
Bumper sticker: Lottery - A Tax On People Who Are Bad At Math.
License plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
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Bumper Sticker: If You Can Read This, You’re Too Close!
Bumper sticker: I Are A College Professor.
Bumper sticker: Driver Carries No Cash - He’s Married!
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Bumper sticker: If Your Job Pays You Peanuts, Make Peanut Butter.
Bumper sticker: I Am Speeding Because I Have To Get Someplace Before I Forget Where I Was Going!
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Bumper sticker: Follow Your Dreams Except That One You Had About Being A Waffle Farmer.
Bumper sticker: I Is A College Graduate
Bumper sticker: People Who Anger You Control You.
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Have you read the bumper sticker that reads, “Ban All Bumper Stickers!”?
Bumper sticker: It Is Bad Luck To Be Superstitious.
Bumper sticker: Humans Aren’t The Only Species On Earth, We Just Act Like It.
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Bumper sticker: Honk If You Have No Control Over Your Impulses.
License plate on the vehicle of a sewing machine dealership: SEW BIZ.
Bumper sticker: Don’t Follow Me - I’m Lost, Too!
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Bumper sticker: It’s Lonely At The Top, But You Eat Better!
Bumper sticker: Quantum Mechanics Is The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of.
Bumper sticker: Mistakes Are Proof That You Are Trying.
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Bumper sticker: I Work To Buy A Car To Go To Work
Bumper sticker: Men Are From Earth. Women Are From Earth. Deal With It.
Bumper sticker: What If The Hokey Pokey Really Is What It’s All About?
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Bumper sticker: Cole’s Law: Thinly Sliced Cabbage.
Bumper sticker: Lottery - A Tax On People Who Are Bad At Math.
License plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
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Bumper Sticker: If You Can Read This, You’re Too Close!
Bumper sticker: I Are A College Professor.
Bumper sticker: Driver Carries No Cash - He’s Married!
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Bumper sticker: If Your Job Pays You Peanuts, Make Peanut Butter.
Bumper sticker: As Long As There Are Tests, There Will Be Prayer In Public Schools.
License plate: HMMMM (seen on a choir director’s vehicle).
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Bumper sticker: Forget World Peace And Visualize Using Your Turn Signal.
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Bumper sticker: Warning - Driver brakes suddenly for no apparent reason.
Bumper sticker: I May Be Slow, But I’m Ahead Of You.
Bumper sticker: Honk If Anything Falls Off.
Bumper sticker: For This I Went To College?
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Bumper sticker: By The Time You Read This, You Will Have Already Read It.
Bumper sticker: Question Everything.
Bumper sticker: This Truck Has Been In Fifteen Accidents, And Hasn’t Lost One Yet!
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Bumper sticker: I Love Animals - They Are Delicious!
Bumper sticker: Taxation With Representation Isn’t So Wonderful, Either!
Bumper sticker: Don’t Forget To Smile!
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Bumper sticker: All Generalizations Are False - Including This One.
Bumper sticker: I Chose The Road Less Traveled - Now Where In The World Am I?
Bumper sticker: My Other Car is a Broom.
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Bumper sticker: Drive carefully, your government needs every taxpayer it can get.
Bumper sticker: The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Bumper sticker: Yes, this is my truck, and no, I won’t help you move.
Bumper sticker: This Bumper Sticker Holds My Car Together.
Bumper sticker: In The Absence Of Light, Darkness Prevails.
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Bumper sticker: My Other Car Has A Funny Bumper Sticker On It.
We are MFOL! . . . it all started one morning when we woke up and said, “Let’s do something different today . . .”
License plate: HMMMM (seen on a choir director’s vehicle).
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Bumper sticker: Forget World Peace And Visualize Using Your Turn Signal.
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Bumper sticker: Warning - Driver brakes suddenly for no apparent reason.
Bumper sticker: I May Be Slow, But I’m Ahead Of You.
Bumper sticker: Honk If Anything Falls Off.
Bumper sticker: For This I Went To College?
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Bumper sticker: By The Time You Read This, You Will Have Already Read It.
Bumper sticker: Question Everything.
Bumper sticker: This Truck Has Been In Fifteen Accidents, And Hasn’t Lost One Yet!
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Bumper sticker: I Love Animals - They Are Delicious!
Bumper sticker: Taxation With Representation Isn’t So Wonderful, Either!
Bumper sticker: Don’t Forget To Smile!
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Bumper sticker: All Generalizations Are False - Including This One.
Bumper sticker: I Chose The Road Less Traveled - Now Where In The World Am I?
Bumper sticker: My Other Car is a Broom.
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Bumper sticker: Drive carefully, your government needs every taxpayer it can get.
Bumper sticker: The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Bumper sticker: Yes, this is my truck, and no, I won’t help you move.
Bumper sticker: This Bumper Sticker Holds My Car Together.
Bumper sticker: In The Absence Of Light, Darkness Prevails.
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Bumper sticker: My Other Car Has A Funny Bumper Sticker On It.
We are MFOL! . . . it all started one morning when we woke up and said, “Let’s do something different today . . .”
“Some people find fault like there’s a reward for it.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’re a mile away from them - and you have their shoes!” -Henny Youngman (Henry ‘Henny’ Youngman (1906 - 1998))
“I never criticize anyone. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.” -Charles Schwab (Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939))
Critics
What one approves, another scorns,
And thus his nature each discloses;
You find the rosebush full of thorns,
I find the thornbush full of roses.
By Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943)
“I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
“All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.” -Author Unknown
“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“If criticism had any real power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.” - Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
“The reason to not take things personally is to understand that what people say about you is a reflection of them, not you.” -Author Unknown
“Wink at small faults.” -John Clarke (1596 - 1658): “Proverbs: English and Latine” (1639)
“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.” -Theodore H. White (Theodore Harold White (1915 - 1986))
“Discouraged people don’t need critics.” -Charles Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))
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“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.” -Mary Kay Ash (born Mary Kathlyn Wagner (1918 - 2001))
“Usually our criticism of others is not because they have faults, but because their faults are different than ours.” -Roger Eastman
“Much of what people attempt to pass off as criticism or even constructive criticism is actually condemnation and an effort to slight, wound, or destroy another person. You must develop a hard protective shell around your essential self to stop the slings and arrows of the critical and judgmental people you will encounter throughout your lifetime.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.” -Barbara Sher (born 1935)
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent
A man may use to build his monument.
-Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943)
Riddle: What is easier to give than receive?
Solution: Criticism.
“I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.” -Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
“Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.” -Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he had done.” -John Henry Newman (also known as Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890))
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“Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.” -Anthony Eden (Robert Anthony Eden (1897 - 1977)): in a speech at the Lord Mayor’s Guildhall banquet during the Suez crisis, as quoted in the “Daily Herald” (10 November 1956) newspaper
“Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.” -H. Burke Peterson (Harold Burke Peterson (1923 - 2013)): ‘Preparing the Heart,’ in “Ensign” (May 1990) magazine, page 83
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“A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.” -Christopher Morley (Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957))
“Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance, and kindness.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“Criticizing another’s garden does not keep the weeds out of your own.” -Author Unknown
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“Since we have so many critics in society, perhaps we need another group of people to criticize the critics, mostly about the fact that there are too many of them.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Sometimes people try to expose what’s wrong with you because they can’t handle everything that’s right about you.” -Author Unknown
“I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.” -Plato (about 427 - about 347 B.C.E.): “Protagoras”
“The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.” -Charles Schwab (Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939))
“I’m too rich to care what the critics say.” -Mel Gibson (Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born 1956))
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“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.” -Judith Martin (also known by the pseudonym Miss Manners (born Judith Perlman in 1938))
“Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours burn any brighter.” -Author Unknown
“He who fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873))
“Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.” -Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909): as quoted in Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, editors: “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Favorite Authors” (1901)
“The sad part about life is that we tend to comment only on those who do it wrong and neglect to balance it with praise for those who do it right.” -Keith Ready
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“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” -Louis Nizer (1902 - 1994)
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’re a mile away from them - and you have their shoes!” -Henny Youngman (Henry ‘Henny’ Youngman (1906 - 1998))
“I never criticize anyone. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.” -Charles Schwab (Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939))
Critics
What one approves, another scorns,
And thus his nature each discloses;
You find the rosebush full of thorns,
I find the thornbush full of roses.
By Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943)
“I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
“All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.” -Author Unknown
“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“If criticism had any real power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.” - Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
“The reason to not take things personally is to understand that what people say about you is a reflection of them, not you.” -Author Unknown
“Wink at small faults.” -John Clarke (1596 - 1658): “Proverbs: English and Latine” (1639)
“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.” -Theodore H. White (Theodore Harold White (1915 - 1986))
“Discouraged people don’t need critics.” -Charles Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))
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“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.” -Mary Kay Ash (born Mary Kathlyn Wagner (1918 - 2001))
“Usually our criticism of others is not because they have faults, but because their faults are different than ours.” -Roger Eastman
“Much of what people attempt to pass off as criticism or even constructive criticism is actually condemnation and an effort to slight, wound, or destroy another person. You must develop a hard protective shell around your essential self to stop the slings and arrows of the critical and judgmental people you will encounter throughout your lifetime.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.” -Barbara Sher (born 1935)
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent
A man may use to build his monument.
-Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943)
Riddle: What is easier to give than receive?
Solution: Criticism.
“I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.” -Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
“Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.” -Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he had done.” -John Henry Newman (also known as Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890))
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“Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.” -Anthony Eden (Robert Anthony Eden (1897 - 1977)): in a speech at the Lord Mayor’s Guildhall banquet during the Suez crisis, as quoted in the “Daily Herald” (10 November 1956) newspaper
“Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.” -H. Burke Peterson (Harold Burke Peterson (1923 - 2013)): ‘Preparing the Heart,’ in “Ensign” (May 1990) magazine, page 83
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“A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.” -Christopher Morley (Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957))
“Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance, and kindness.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“Criticizing another’s garden does not keep the weeds out of your own.” -Author Unknown
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“Since we have so many critics in society, perhaps we need another group of people to criticize the critics, mostly about the fact that there are too many of them.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Sometimes people try to expose what’s wrong with you because they can’t handle everything that’s right about you.” -Author Unknown
“I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.” -Plato (about 427 - about 347 B.C.E.): “Protagoras”
“The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.” -Charles Schwab (Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939))
“I’m too rich to care what the critics say.” -Mel Gibson (Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born 1956))
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“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.” -Judith Martin (also known by the pseudonym Miss Manners (born Judith Perlman in 1938))
“Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours burn any brighter.” -Author Unknown
“He who fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873))
“Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.” -Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909): as quoted in Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, editors: “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Favorite Authors” (1901)
“The sad part about life is that we tend to comment only on those who do it wrong and neglect to balance it with praise for those who do it right.” -Keith Ready
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“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” -Louis Nizer (1902 - 1994)
“Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“Movie Critic: A person who gives the best jeers of his or her life to the theater.” -Author Unknown
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“Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.” -Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
“What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.” -Thomas Sprat (1635 - 1713)
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“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“People who judge others are insecure about themselves.” -Author Unknown
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“Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? ‘I will speak ill of no man,’ he said, ‘. . . and speak all the good I know of everybody.’ Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. ‘A great man shows his greatness,’ says Carlyle, ‘by the way he treats little men.’” -Dale Carnegie: “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936): ‘Part 1: Fundamental Techniques in Handling People,’ page 36
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” -Matthew: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Matthew,’ chapter 7, verse 1
“If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.” -François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680))
“Court not the critic’s smile, nor dread his frown.” -Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Hypercritical: Excessively and unreasonably critical, especially of small faults.
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“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals and have no hope of rising in their own self-esteem but by lowering their neighbors.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
“To avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Fra Elbertus (pseudonym of Elbert Green Hubbard): “The Motto Book” (1909)
“People who try to whittle you down are only trying to reduce you to their size.” -Author Unknown
“Don’t worry about what people say about you; they are busy finding faults in your life instead of fixing the faults in their own lives.” -Author Unknown
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“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” -Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye (1850 - 1896)), referring to Richard Wagner (Wilhelm Richard ‘Richard’ Wagner (1813 - 1883))
“Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.” -Zeuxis of Heraclea (464 B.C.E. - 400 B.C.E.)
“You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.” -Wallace Arnold (Wallace C. Arnold)
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“When one dog barks another will join it.” -Author Unknown
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“Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.” -P. G. Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“Faults are the easiest things to find.” -Author Unknown
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“Wouldn’t it be nice if we could find other things as easily as we find fault?” -Author Unknown
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“The Moon could not continue shining if it had to pay attention to all the dogs barking at it.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: People who have time to point out others’ mistakes have time to do some work.
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“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
“No matter how criticisms are presented, they are nonetheless opinions and usually nothing more, and are often of no more value than opinions have ever been.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Criticism is a life without risk.” -John Lahr (born 1941): “Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theatre” (1996)
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“Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.” -Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931): as quoted in Robin Waterfield, editor: “The Voice of Kahlil Gibran: An Anthology” (1995)
“No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there’s something bad about it. Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there’s somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, ‘Oh, you can’t do that . . .’” -Tom Clancy (Thomas Leo ‘Tom’ Clancy, Junior (1947 - 2013))
“Pay more attention to your Creator than your critics.” -Author Unknown
“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940))
“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.” -Democritus of Abdera (about 460 B.C.E. - about 370 B.C.E.)
“Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters - who, like deer, goats, and divers other gramniverous¹ animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure², and retarding their progress to maturity.” -Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
¹gramnivorous: feeding on grass
²verdure: the fresh green color of vegetation
“Restrain your tongues in criticism of others. It is so easy to find fault. It is so much nobler to speak constructively.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“Go ahead. Judge me. Just remember to be perfect the rest of your life.” -Author Unknown
“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, criticize.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
“Be a doer and not a critic.” -Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton ‘Tony’ Blair (born 1953))
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“Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don’t like about yourself.” -Iyanla Vanzant (born 1953 as Rhonda Eva Harris)
“It is easier to pull down than to build up.” -Author Unknown
“The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley (born 1933))
“When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.” -Richard Carlson (1961 - 2006)
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“People criticized me. So I changed. But people still criticized me. So I changed more. And still people criticized me. Then finally I realized it’s what they will do, no matter what. And I changed once more, by no longer listening to those people.” -Brian Vaszily (Brian William Vaszily (born 1970))
“Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.” -Dave Willis (born 1970)
“There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.” -Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
“‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had.’” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)): “The Great Gatsby,” Chapter 1
“In reality, the world have payed* too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.” -Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754): “Tom Jones” (1749), book 5, chapter 1
*payed: variant spelling of ‘paid,’ the past-tense of ‘pay.’
“Become known for building ideas, not for finding fault.” -Richard A. Moran: “Never Confuse a Memo with Reality”
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“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
“It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.” -Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
“When criticized, consider the source.” -Author Unknown
“If you are always finding fault, you will seldom find anything else.” -Author Unknown
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“Answer them with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.” -Gioacchino Rossini (Gioacchini Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868)), commenting on critics
“Let he who is without fault cast the first stone.” -Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘John,’ chapter 8, verse 7
“Sooner or later your work speaks for itself. Outlasting critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you’re more patient than they are.” -Seth Godin (Seth W. Godin (born 1960)) at https://www.sethgodin.com/
“The faults we find in others are our own.” -Author Unknown
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“Anybody can point out anybody else’s bad qualities. If you want to distinguish yourself, go around pointing out good qualities.” -Author Unknown
“Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.” -Author Unknown
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“Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.” -Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada (1515 - 1582))
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“Movie Critic: A person who gives the best jeers of his or her life to the theater.” -Author Unknown
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“Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.” -Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
“What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.” -Thomas Sprat (1635 - 1713)
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“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“People who judge others are insecure about themselves.” -Author Unknown
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“Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? ‘I will speak ill of no man,’ he said, ‘. . . and speak all the good I know of everybody.’ Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. ‘A great man shows his greatness,’ says Carlyle, ‘by the way he treats little men.’” -Dale Carnegie: “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936): ‘Part 1: Fundamental Techniques in Handling People,’ page 36
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” -Matthew: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Matthew,’ chapter 7, verse 1
“If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.” -François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680))
“Court not the critic’s smile, nor dread his frown.” -Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Hypercritical: Excessively and unreasonably critical, especially of small faults.
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“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals and have no hope of rising in their own self-esteem but by lowering their neighbors.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
“To avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Fra Elbertus (pseudonym of Elbert Green Hubbard): “The Motto Book” (1909)
“People who try to whittle you down are only trying to reduce you to their size.” -Author Unknown
“Don’t worry about what people say about you; they are busy finding faults in your life instead of fixing the faults in their own lives.” -Author Unknown
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“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” -Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye (1850 - 1896)), referring to Richard Wagner (Wilhelm Richard ‘Richard’ Wagner (1813 - 1883))
“Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.” -Zeuxis of Heraclea (464 B.C.E. - 400 B.C.E.)
“You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.” -Wallace Arnold (Wallace C. Arnold)
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“When one dog barks another will join it.” -Author Unknown
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“Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.” -P. G. Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“Faults are the easiest things to find.” -Author Unknown
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“Wouldn’t it be nice if we could find other things as easily as we find fault?” -Author Unknown
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“The Moon could not continue shining if it had to pay attention to all the dogs barking at it.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: People who have time to point out others’ mistakes have time to do some work.
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“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
“No matter how criticisms are presented, they are nonetheless opinions and usually nothing more, and are often of no more value than opinions have ever been.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Criticism is a life without risk.” -John Lahr (born 1941): “Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theatre” (1996)
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“Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.” -Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931): as quoted in Robin Waterfield, editor: “The Voice of Kahlil Gibran: An Anthology” (1995)
“No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there’s something bad about it. Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there’s somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, ‘Oh, you can’t do that . . .’” -Tom Clancy (Thomas Leo ‘Tom’ Clancy, Junior (1947 - 2013))
“Pay more attention to your Creator than your critics.” -Author Unknown
“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940))
“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.” -Democritus of Abdera (about 460 B.C.E. - about 370 B.C.E.)
“Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters - who, like deer, goats, and divers other gramniverous¹ animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure², and retarding their progress to maturity.” -Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
¹gramnivorous: feeding on grass
²verdure: the fresh green color of vegetation
“Restrain your tongues in criticism of others. It is so easy to find fault. It is so much nobler to speak constructively.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“Go ahead. Judge me. Just remember to be perfect the rest of your life.” -Author Unknown
“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, criticize.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
“Be a doer and not a critic.” -Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton ‘Tony’ Blair (born 1953))
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“Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don’t like about yourself.” -Iyanla Vanzant (born 1953 as Rhonda Eva Harris)
“It is easier to pull down than to build up.” -Author Unknown
“The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley (born 1933))
“When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.” -Richard Carlson (1961 - 2006)
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“People criticized me. So I changed. But people still criticized me. So I changed more. And still people criticized me. Then finally I realized it’s what they will do, no matter what. And I changed once more, by no longer listening to those people.” -Brian Vaszily (Brian William Vaszily (born 1970))
“Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.” -Dave Willis (born 1970)
“There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.” -Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
“‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had.’” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)): “The Great Gatsby,” Chapter 1
“In reality, the world have payed* too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.” -Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754): “Tom Jones” (1749), book 5, chapter 1
*payed: variant spelling of ‘paid,’ the past-tense of ‘pay.’
“Become known for building ideas, not for finding fault.” -Richard A. Moran: “Never Confuse a Memo with Reality”
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“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
“It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.” -Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
“When criticized, consider the source.” -Author Unknown
“If you are always finding fault, you will seldom find anything else.” -Author Unknown
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“Answer them with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.” -Gioacchino Rossini (Gioacchini Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868)), commenting on critics
“Let he who is without fault cast the first stone.” -Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘John,’ chapter 8, verse 7
“Sooner or later your work speaks for itself. Outlasting critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you’re more patient than they are.” -Seth Godin (Seth W. Godin (born 1960)) at https://www.sethgodin.com/
“The faults we find in others are our own.” -Author Unknown
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“Anybody can point out anybody else’s bad qualities. If you want to distinguish yourself, go around pointing out good qualities.” -Author Unknown
“Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.” -Author Unknown
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“Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.” -Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada (1515 - 1582))
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Monkey bath: A bath with water so hot that, as you lower yourself into the tub, you say, “Oo-oo aa-aa, oo-oo aa-aa!”
Aquadextrous (ak-wa·deksꞋtrus), adjective: Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with one’s toes.
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Riddle: What becomes wet when drying?
Solution: A towel.
Aquadextrous (ak-wa·deksꞋtrus), adjective: Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with one’s toes.
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Riddle: What becomes wet when drying?
Solution: A towel.
Mildred: How does one give an elephant a bath?
Dorothy: First, get a very large rubber ducky . . .
Why is it that no matter what the color of the bubble bath, the bubbles are white?
Michelle: What kind of person steals soap?
Michael: A dirty crook, that’s who!
“A bit of muck never hurt anyone.” -Author Unknown: Yorkshire saying
If soap falls on the floor, does the soap get dirty, or does the floor get clean?
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“Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.” -John Wesley (1703 - 1791): “Sermon XCII: On Dress”
“Cleanliness is next to goodliness.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Cleanliness is next to impossible.” -Author Unknown
“For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “The Advancement of Learning” (1605)
“Dirt is not dirt, but only matter in the wrong place.” -Henry John Temple (also known as Lord Palmerston (1784 - 1865))
“Why Dirt Is Good: 5 Ways to Make Germs Your Friends” (2009) is a book by Mary Ruebush, Ph.D., who is an award-winning professor of immunology and microbiology at Kaplan Medical in Bozeman, Montana, United States of America. In the book, she demonstrates a lively mastery of her subject, providing readers with an education in immunology and explaining ‘good germs.’ The book offers medically sound advice, explaining how we can become healthier by exposing ourselves to some of the things in our environment that many of us tend to avoid obsessively.
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Dorothy: First, get a very large rubber ducky . . .
Why is it that no matter what the color of the bubble bath, the bubbles are white?
Michelle: What kind of person steals soap?
Michael: A dirty crook, that’s who!
“A bit of muck never hurt anyone.” -Author Unknown: Yorkshire saying
If soap falls on the floor, does the soap get dirty, or does the floor get clean?
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“Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.” -John Wesley (1703 - 1791): “Sermon XCII: On Dress”
“Cleanliness is next to goodliness.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Cleanliness is next to impossible.” -Author Unknown
“For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “The Advancement of Learning” (1605)
“Dirt is not dirt, but only matter in the wrong place.” -Henry John Temple (also known as Lord Palmerston (1784 - 1865))
“Why Dirt Is Good: 5 Ways to Make Germs Your Friends” (2009) is a book by Mary Ruebush, Ph.D., who is an award-winning professor of immunology and microbiology at Kaplan Medical in Bozeman, Montana, United States of America. In the book, she demonstrates a lively mastery of her subject, providing readers with an education in immunology and explaining ‘good germs.’ The book offers medically sound advice, explaining how we can become healthier by exposing ourselves to some of the things in our environment that many of us tend to avoid obsessively.
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Mud baths are popular with some rich people, who pay a whole lot of money just to go to spas and resorts to soak and bathe in mud. Elephants also enjoy bathing in squishy mud baths - just as much as rich people do. However, elephants are much smarter than rich people, because they take their mud baths in the great outdoors and pay . . . nothing! Additionally, elephants like to stay caked with mud because the mud acts as a protective coating to reduce sunburns.
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“One keep-clean is better than ten make-cleans.” -Author Unknown
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We Wash Our Hands
We wash our hands before we eat,
Hoorah, hoorah!
We wash our hands before we eat,
Hoorah, hoorah!
We wash and wash,
And scrub and scrub
And dry and dry our hands -
Real well!
We wash our hands before we eat,
Hoorah, hoorah!
By Author Unknown: can be sung to the same tune as that of “The Ants Go Marching”
“Have you ever noticed that, while they have similar textures, bars of chocolate somehow taste better than bars of soap?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Young Lady from Crete
There was a young lady from Crete,
Who was so exceedingly neat,
When she got out of bed,
She stood on her head,
To keep from soiling her feet.
By Author Unknown
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“One keep-clean is better than ten make-cleans.” -Author Unknown
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We Wash Our Hands
We wash our hands before we eat,
Hoorah, hoorah!
We wash our hands before we eat,
Hoorah, hoorah!
We wash and wash,
And scrub and scrub
And dry and dry our hands -
Real well!
We wash our hands before we eat,
Hoorah, hoorah!
By Author Unknown: can be sung to the same tune as that of “The Ants Go Marching”
“Have you ever noticed that, while they have similar textures, bars of chocolate somehow taste better than bars of soap?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Young Lady from Crete
There was a young lady from Crete,
Who was so exceedingly neat,
When she got out of bed,
She stood on her head,
To keep from soiling her feet.
By Author Unknown
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Handwashing Song
Wash, wash, wash your hands,
Clean them both the same,
Between the fingers, front and back,
Until germs go down the drain!
By Author Unknown: can be sung to the same tune as that of the song, “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
Proper Handwashing
1. Wet hands with water.
2. Apply soap.
3. Lather hands, wrists, and lower part of forearms with soap.
4. Scrub thoroughly for half a minute.
5. Rinse with water.
6. Dry.
Global Handwashing Day is on 15 October of each year. Let us all wash our hands in celebration!
Ivory bar soap, known for possessing the property of floating in water, was created by accident. A worker in a factory left the soap-making machinery running too long, which caused tiny air bubbles to form in the soap. Customers who bought bars of soap made from this particular batch wrote letters to the manufacturer, saying how much they liked having soap that floated in their bathtubs, and that is the story of how Ivory bar soap came to be the soap that floats.
Al: What is the best cure for dandruff?
Lex: Baldness.
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Wash, wash, wash your hands,
Clean them both the same,
Between the fingers, front and back,
Until germs go down the drain!
By Author Unknown: can be sung to the same tune as that of the song, “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
Proper Handwashing
1. Wet hands with water.
2. Apply soap.
3. Lather hands, wrists, and lower part of forearms with soap.
4. Scrub thoroughly for half a minute.
5. Rinse with water.
6. Dry.
Global Handwashing Day is on 15 October of each year. Let us all wash our hands in celebration!
Ivory bar soap, known for possessing the property of floating in water, was created by accident. A worker in a factory left the soap-making machinery running too long, which caused tiny air bubbles to form in the soap. Customers who bought bars of soap made from this particular batch wrote letters to the manufacturer, saying how much they liked having soap that floated in their bathtubs, and that is the story of how Ivory bar soap came to be the soap that floats.
Al: What is the best cure for dandruff?
Lex: Baldness.
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Cats bathe with their tongues, though usually they bathe just themselves.
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Queen Isabella I of Spain, who financed Christopher Columbus’ voyage of discovery to the New World, claimed to have bathed only twice in her lifetime. Even France’s King Louis XIV bathed only once a year. But they were not as strange as people might think, because during their time, attitudes toward bathing were very different from those common today. It just goes to show that we have learned a lot as a species, and we doubtless have much more to learn.
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Queen Isabella I of Spain, who financed Christopher Columbus’ voyage of discovery to the New World, claimed to have bathed only twice in her lifetime. Even France’s King Louis XIV bathed only once a year. But they were not as strange as people might think, because during their time, attitudes toward bathing were very different from those common today. It just goes to show that we have learned a lot as a species, and we doubtless have much more to learn.
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Nothing is quite as welcome after dirty, grimy work as are rest and relaxation . . . except perhaps cleaning up with soap and water.
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Reasons To Not Wash
If we take the same excuses that people use for not going to church and apply them to other areas of life, we would realize just how inconsistent people can be in their logic.
1. I was forced to as a child.
2. People who make soap are only after your money.
3. I wash on special occasions like Christmas and Easter.
4. People who wash are hypocrites - they think they are cleaner than everyone else.
5. There are so many different kinds of soap; I cannot decide which one is best.
6. I used to wash, but it got boring, so I stopped.
7. None of my friends wash.
8. The bathroom is never warm enough in the winter or cool enough in the summer.
9. I will start washing when I get older and dirtier.
10. I cannot spare the time.
By Author Unknown
If we take the same excuses that people use for not going to church and apply them to other areas of life, we would realize just how inconsistent people can be in their logic.
1. I was forced to as a child.
2. People who make soap are only after your money.
3. I wash on special occasions like Christmas and Easter.
4. People who wash are hypocrites - they think they are cleaner than everyone else.
5. There are so many different kinds of soap; I cannot decide which one is best.
6. I used to wash, but it got boring, so I stopped.
7. None of my friends wash.
8. The bathroom is never warm enough in the winter or cool enough in the summer.
9. I will start washing when I get older and dirtier.
10. I cannot spare the time.
By Author Unknown
If everyone on Earth took a bath in a single day, the entire supply of fresh water on our planet would become dirty, so it turns out that by staying dirty, some people are helping to ensure that the rest of us have clean water. How considerate of them.
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“In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.” -Author Unknown: ‘Imbesi’s Conservation of Filth Law’
“There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.” -Author Unknown
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“In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.” -Author Unknown: ‘Imbesi’s Conservation of Filth Law’
“There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.” -Author Unknown
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How do animals keep themselves clean? Chickens take baths by flopping around in dirt and dust, which prevents tics, lice, and other bugs from making their permanent homes under the chickens’ feathers. Pigs also keep bugs off themselves by taking mud baths, and caked-on mud has the additional advantage of reducing pigs’ sunlight exposure, because pigs, like humans, can get unpleasant sunburns.
Bob: Want to hear a ‘dirty’ joke?
Otto: Sure, why not.
Bob: A man fell in the mud.
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Otto: Want to hear a ‘clean’ joke?
Bob: What is that?
Otto: The man took a bath!
Bob: Want to hear a ‘dirty’ joke?
Otto: Sure, why not.
Bob: A man fell in the mud.
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Otto: Want to hear a ‘clean’ joke?
Bob: What is that?
Otto: The man took a bath!
And now the star of the show, second in popularity among bath toys only to a bar of soap and a washcloth, it’s the Yellow Rubber Duckies. They just somehow seem to love good, clean fun!
Personal Hygiene And Cleanliness Quiz
- What are three things that can help a person become clean?
- How often should a person take a bath or a shower?
- What happens if a person puts on too much perfume, cologne, or other scents?
- When should we wash our hands?
- Why should we wear flip-flops, sandals, or shower shoes when showering in gyms, schools, college dorms, and other places outside of our homes?
- Why should we not share our personal care items, such as toothbrushes, shaving razors, and nail clippers, with other people?
- What is the difference between the words ‘bath’ and ‘bathe,’ besides just the letter ‘e’?
Why do the instructions on hair shampoo bottles read, ‘Lather. Rinse. Repeat’? If we did this, would we never be able to stop?
Ablutophobia is a fear of washing or bathing. Most people with the condition learn over time that cleaning oneself is not to be feared; however, for those with a persistent case of the condition, compassionate counseling may be necessary. Because it can be embarrassing, many ablutophobia sufferers find discussing it difficult, and will need genuine understanding and encouragement in overcoming their fear. Ridiculing or teasing them will make the condition worse, and for those who smell bad, they most likely already know they do, so they won’t be helped by being lectured to or scolded about their body odor. Like most fears, ablutophobia can have a real cause, often being rooted in unpleasant or even traumatic experiences. It can also be a symptom of living in extreme poverty or of being in a family or other relationship in which ongoing abuse occurs, and these root causes would need to be addressed in order to help a person overcome ablutophobia. Ablutophobia is derived from the Latin word ‘ablutere’ meaning ‘to wash off’ and the Greek word ‘phobos’ meaning ‘fear.’
“Shower, noun: A one-person concert hall.” -Author Unknown
“The bathtub is an epicurean innovation from England designed to corrupt the democratic simplicity of the republic. We of the medical profession warn against it as a producer of rheumatic fevers, inflammatory lungs, and all zymotic diseases.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The New York Times” (1841) newspaper
“Singing in a shower is fun, until you get soap in your mouth. Then, it becomes a soap opera.” -Author Unknown
This is MFOL! . . . good clean fun . . . without all that soapy residue . . .
Personal Hygiene And Cleanliness Quiz
- What are three things that can help a person become clean?
- How often should a person take a bath or a shower?
- What happens if a person puts on too much perfume, cologne, or other scents?
- When should we wash our hands?
- Why should we wear flip-flops, sandals, or shower shoes when showering in gyms, schools, college dorms, and other places outside of our homes?
- Why should we not share our personal care items, such as toothbrushes, shaving razors, and nail clippers, with other people?
- What is the difference between the words ‘bath’ and ‘bathe,’ besides just the letter ‘e’?
Why do the instructions on hair shampoo bottles read, ‘Lather. Rinse. Repeat’? If we did this, would we never be able to stop?
Ablutophobia is a fear of washing or bathing. Most people with the condition learn over time that cleaning oneself is not to be feared; however, for those with a persistent case of the condition, compassionate counseling may be necessary. Because it can be embarrassing, many ablutophobia sufferers find discussing it difficult, and will need genuine understanding and encouragement in overcoming their fear. Ridiculing or teasing them will make the condition worse, and for those who smell bad, they most likely already know they do, so they won’t be helped by being lectured to or scolded about their body odor. Like most fears, ablutophobia can have a real cause, often being rooted in unpleasant or even traumatic experiences. It can also be a symptom of living in extreme poverty or of being in a family or other relationship in which ongoing abuse occurs, and these root causes would need to be addressed in order to help a person overcome ablutophobia. Ablutophobia is derived from the Latin word ‘ablutere’ meaning ‘to wash off’ and the Greek word ‘phobos’ meaning ‘fear.’
“Shower, noun: A one-person concert hall.” -Author Unknown
“The bathtub is an epicurean innovation from England designed to corrupt the democratic simplicity of the republic. We of the medical profession warn against it as a producer of rheumatic fevers, inflammatory lungs, and all zymotic diseases.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The New York Times” (1841) newspaper
“Singing in a shower is fun, until you get soap in your mouth. Then, it becomes a soap opera.” -Author Unknown
This is MFOL! . . . good clean fun . . . without all that soapy residue . . .
“We come in peace.” -Unidentified Extraterrestrial
“Innumerable Suns exist; innumerable Earths revolve around these Suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our Sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.” -Giordano Bruno (born Filippo Bruno (1548 - 1600)): “On the Infinite Universe and Worlds” (1584)
“Take me to your leader.” -Unidentified Extraterrestrial
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Eddy: What did the metric alien say?
Freddy: “Take me to your liter.”
“There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours . . . we must believe that in all worlds there are living creatures and plants and other things we see in this world.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.): “Letter to Herodotus”
Scientists have yet to discover a sign of extraterrestrial life, but the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, having what is claimed to be life-sustaining matter and supposedly habitable climates, is claimed to be a promising possible indication of life beyond Earth.
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It Came From Outer Space
There was a Martian named Zed
With antennae all over his head.
He sent out a lot
Of di-di-dash-dot,
But nobody knows what he said.
By John Ciardi (John Anthony Ciardi (1916 - 1986))
Extra = beyond. Terrestrial = Earth. Extraterrestrial = beyond Earth.
“Innumerable Suns exist; innumerable Earths revolve around these Suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our Sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.” -Giordano Bruno (born Filippo Bruno (1548 - 1600)): “On the Infinite Universe and Worlds” (1584)
“Take me to your leader.” -Unidentified Extraterrestrial
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Eddy: What did the metric alien say?
Freddy: “Take me to your liter.”
“There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours . . . we must believe that in all worlds there are living creatures and plants and other things we see in this world.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.): “Letter to Herodotus”
Scientists have yet to discover a sign of extraterrestrial life, but the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, having what is claimed to be life-sustaining matter and supposedly habitable climates, is claimed to be a promising possible indication of life beyond Earth.
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It Came From Outer Space
There was a Martian named Zed
With antennae all over his head.
He sent out a lot
Of di-di-dash-dot,
But nobody knows what he said.
By John Ciardi (John Anthony Ciardi (1916 - 1986))
Extra = beyond. Terrestrial = Earth. Extraterrestrial = beyond Earth.
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” -Bill Watterson (William Boyd ‘Bill’ Watterson II (born 1958)): “Calvin & Hobbes” (8 Nov 89), page 29; words of character Calvin
Bernice: What are the slowest space monsters?
Bernard: Snailiens!
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“Personally, I don’t think there’s intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?” -Bob Monkhouse (Robert Alan ‘Bob’ Monkhouse (1928 - 2003))
“The Mars rover Curiosity has sent back images of some odd things on the surface of Mars, and some people think they could be UFO’s. Here’s my question. If we’re on the surface of Mars, aren’t we the UFO?” -Jay Leno (James Douglas Muir ‘Jay’ Leno (born 1950))
“They stared at each other, man and alien, or more correctly alien and alien - for this is what they were to each other. Alien meaning different, alien meaning unknown.” -Harry Harrison: “Plague from Space” (1965), Chapter 13
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“Klaatu barada nikto!” -Author Unknown: “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” words of fictional character Helen Benson (portrayed by actress Patricia Neal)
The Alien
The alien
Was as round as the Moon.
Five legs he had
And his ears played a tune.
His hair was pink
And his knees were green,
He was the funniest thing I’d seen
As he danced in the door
Of his strange spacecraft,
He looked at me -
And laughed and laughed!
By Julie Holder
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Bernice: What are the slowest space monsters?
Bernard: Snailiens!
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“Personally, I don’t think there’s intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?” -Bob Monkhouse (Robert Alan ‘Bob’ Monkhouse (1928 - 2003))
“The Mars rover Curiosity has sent back images of some odd things on the surface of Mars, and some people think they could be UFO’s. Here’s my question. If we’re on the surface of Mars, aren’t we the UFO?” -Jay Leno (James Douglas Muir ‘Jay’ Leno (born 1950))
“They stared at each other, man and alien, or more correctly alien and alien - for this is what they were to each other. Alien meaning different, alien meaning unknown.” -Harry Harrison: “Plague from Space” (1965), Chapter 13
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“Klaatu barada nikto!” -Author Unknown: “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” words of fictional character Helen Benson (portrayed by actress Patricia Neal)
The Alien
The alien
Was as round as the Moon.
Five legs he had
And his ears played a tune.
His hair was pink
And his knees were green,
He was the funniest thing I’d seen
As he danced in the door
Of his strange spacecraft,
He looked at me -
And laughed and laughed!
By Julie Holder
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If the United States government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on 16 July 1969, make it illegal for American citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
Ella: If you run into a three-headed alien, what should you say?
Ellie: “Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!”
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“I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.” -Richard Feynman (Richard Phillips Feynman (1918 - 1988))
Otis: Where do alien fish swim?
Otto: In the Galax Sea. (galaxy)
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Pam: Have you ever noticed that space aliens have no noses?
Sam: Really? How do they smell?
Pam: Terrible!
“Sometimes I think we’re alone in the Universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.” -Arthur C. Clarke (Arthur Charles Clarke (1917 - 2008))
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“Why are aliens always portrayed as evil in movies? How do we know that there isn’t an alien out there just waiting to share the recipe for, ‘The Universe’s Best Waffle Mix’?” -Kevin Peck
Hansel: What did the space alien cook for breakfast?
Gretel: An Unidentified Frying Object (UFO).
First Space Alien: Is there somewhere around here where I can wash up?
Second Space Alien: Sure, just keep going straight ahead until you come to the meteor showers.
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Ella: If you run into a three-headed alien, what should you say?
Ellie: “Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!”
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“I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.” -Richard Feynman (Richard Phillips Feynman (1918 - 1988))
Otis: Where do alien fish swim?
Otto: In the Galax Sea. (galaxy)
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Pam: Have you ever noticed that space aliens have no noses?
Sam: Really? How do they smell?
Pam: Terrible!
“Sometimes I think we’re alone in the Universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.” -Arthur C. Clarke (Arthur Charles Clarke (1917 - 2008))
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“Why are aliens always portrayed as evil in movies? How do we know that there isn’t an alien out there just waiting to share the recipe for, ‘The Universe’s Best Waffle Mix’?” -Kevin Peck
Hansel: What did the space alien cook for breakfast?
Gretel: An Unidentified Frying Object (UFO).
First Space Alien: Is there somewhere around here where I can wash up?
Second Space Alien: Sure, just keep going straight ahead until you come to the meteor showers.
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An alien spaceship was running low on fuel, so it landed at a gas station in the middle of the desert near area 51. On one side were printed the letters ‘UFO.’ The station attendant was completely stunned as he came out to see what was going on. Pointing to the side of the craft, he asked, “I’ll bet that stands for ‘Unidentified Flying Object,’ right?” “Nope,” said one of the aliens. “It stands for ‘Unleaded Fuel Only’.”
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Edward James Ruppelt (1923 - 1960) is credited with inventing the term ‘unidentified flying object,’ abbreviated as UFO, which came to replace the terms ‘flying saucer’ and ‘flying disk.’ Attempts are being made to replace UFO with other terms, including ‘unidentified aerial phenomenon’ or UAP. Perhaps UAP will someday be replaced with ‘what is that thing?’ or WITT?
Two outer space aliens stopped to look at a parking meter. One of them picked up a quarter from the ground, and after a little trial and error, inserted the quarter into the meter. When she saw the needle on the dial move, she said to her companion, “How about that? I weigh an hour.”
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Edward James Ruppelt (1923 - 1960) is credited with inventing the term ‘unidentified flying object,’ abbreviated as UFO, which came to replace the terms ‘flying saucer’ and ‘flying disk.’ Attempts are being made to replace UFO with other terms, including ‘unidentified aerial phenomenon’ or UAP. Perhaps UAP will someday be replaced with ‘what is that thing?’ or WITT?
Two outer space aliens stopped to look at a parking meter. One of them picked up a quarter from the ground, and after a little trial and error, inserted the quarter into the meter. When she saw the needle on the dial move, she said to her companion, “How about that? I weigh an hour.”
In 1967, former United States Navy aviator and aviation writer Jack D. Pickett and his business partner Harold Baker visited MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida to gather information for an Air Force-sponsored article on historical experimental aircraft. At the edge of the base, they were shown four decommissioned X-planes - all of them flying discs - measuring 20, 40, 70, and 116 feet in diameter.
Through interviews with various base personnel, Pickett and Baker concluded that, during the 1950’s, the USAF had developed several models of jet-powered flying discs for reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union. The discs had supersonic capabilities and had, on occasion, reached heights that approached the edge of space (50 miles). Many disc flights - particularly those of the highly successful 40-foot version - were no doubt responsible for the ‘Flying Saucer’ reports during the period. By the early 1960s, all had been retired in favor of more advanced aircraft.
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Through interviews with various base personnel, Pickett and Baker concluded that, during the 1950’s, the USAF had developed several models of jet-powered flying discs for reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union. The discs had supersonic capabilities and had, on occasion, reached heights that approached the edge of space (50 miles). Many disc flights - particularly those of the highly successful 40-foot version - were no doubt responsible for the ‘Flying Saucer’ reports during the period. By the early 1960s, all had been retired in favor of more advanced aircraft.
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Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Space alien.
Space alien, who?
Just how many space aliens do you know?
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Who’s there?
Space alien.
Space alien, who?
Just how many space aliens do you know?
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Overheard: Are you from outer space . . . or just from out of town?
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Elsa: What did the alien say when he walked into his spaceship?
Elsie: “Ouch!”
“There are many intelligent species in the Universe. They are all owned by cats.” -Author Unknown
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Autogeddon
If an alien were to hover a few
Hundred yards above the planet
It could be forgiven for thinking
That cars were the dominant life form,
And that human beings were a kind of
Ambulatory fuel cell:
Injected when the car wished to move off,
And ejected when they were spent.
By Heathcote Williams (1988)
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The shocking truth: Extraterrestrials and their spacecraft, commonly called UFO’s, possibly have never visited Earth and may not even exist. The entire space aliens and alien spacecraft idea was partly science fiction allowed to fester and partly a deliberate propaganda campaign created by the government of the United States of America around the end of World War 2, and continued over the following decades. It was an attempt to gain a psychological edge over the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and to provide a cover story to civilians when experimental aircraft crashed, as both sides raced to reach military supremacy during the Cold War Era. The technologies that now allow us to have cell phones, personal computers, and other comparatively recent and stunning advances, are not reverse-engineered from alien technologies, but have been created entirely by our fellow human beings.
“Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.” -Robert A. Baker: “The Aliens Among Us: Hypnotic Regression Revisited”
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Elsa: What did the alien say when he walked into his spaceship?
Elsie: “Ouch!”
“There are many intelligent species in the Universe. They are all owned by cats.” -Author Unknown
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Autogeddon
If an alien were to hover a few
Hundred yards above the planet
It could be forgiven for thinking
That cars were the dominant life form,
And that human beings were a kind of
Ambulatory fuel cell:
Injected when the car wished to move off,
And ejected when they were spent.
By Heathcote Williams (1988)
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The shocking truth: Extraterrestrials and their spacecraft, commonly called UFO’s, possibly have never visited Earth and may not even exist. The entire space aliens and alien spacecraft idea was partly science fiction allowed to fester and partly a deliberate propaganda campaign created by the government of the United States of America around the end of World War 2, and continued over the following decades. It was an attempt to gain a psychological edge over the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and to provide a cover story to civilians when experimental aircraft crashed, as both sides raced to reach military supremacy during the Cold War Era. The technologies that now allow us to have cell phones, personal computers, and other comparatively recent and stunning advances, are not reverse-engineered from alien technologies, but have been created entirely by our fellow human beings.
“Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.” -Robert A. Baker: “The Aliens Among Us: Hypnotic Regression Revisited”
The image shown above is how a United States Air Force Lenticular Reentry Vehicle might have looked. Some information on the experimental flying disk program was declassified in 1997, but none of the original aircraft are known to still exist. The flying disks had problems with flight stability and suffered from a high crash rate, so the American military ultimately chose to use more reliable conventional fixed-wing aircraft designs similar to what are in use today. However, the LRV’s were real aircraft, conceptually designed to operate as re-entry vehicles at high altitudes and in near-space, for reconnaissance (spying) and deploying special (nuclear) weapons. Casual observers who spotted these craft in the sky above them decades ago might have imagined they were seeing flying saucers from outer space that were filled with outer space aliens.
Greta: What kind of music do aliens listen to in their spaceships?
Gretchen: Neptunes!
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“But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.” -John Ankerberg
Reverse engineering is real, but not of alien spacecraft, simply of competitors’ military and civilian technologies, such as aircraft, missiles, torpedoes, computers, toasters, and blenders, and including research methods, data gathering, and software. It should be noted that if anyone attempted to reverse engineer www.MakeFunOfLife.net, the results would be useless in any practical sense, and it would be better to go play outside instead.
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While the fantasy that beings or entities from other places in the Universe would build spaceships and fly them all the way to Earth might seem fascinating, it might not be the best long-term idea to have as one’s life focus. Planting orchards, teaching Sunday school, learning and using good manners, building furniture, raising children, developing flying cars and flying boats, starting a business, or any of an endless number of other activities, all can yield greater rewards and a richer life than obsessing over the remote possibility of the existence of extraterrestrials and UFO’s. Use your imagination to help you create real things and real results; do not allow fantasies to become your life. The risk of living in fantasy is that a person can come to his or her senses at the end of a lifetime having never had anything that was real.
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Curiously, now that so many people have cell phones with built-in cameras, claims of Unidentified Flying Objects sightings have dropped to nearly zero. You would think that just the opposite would be the case if UFO’s were real.
Greta: What kind of music do aliens listen to in their spaceships?
Gretchen: Neptunes!
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“But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.” -John Ankerberg
Reverse engineering is real, but not of alien spacecraft, simply of competitors’ military and civilian technologies, such as aircraft, missiles, torpedoes, computers, toasters, and blenders, and including research methods, data gathering, and software. It should be noted that if anyone attempted to reverse engineer www.MakeFunOfLife.net, the results would be useless in any practical sense, and it would be better to go play outside instead.
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While the fantasy that beings or entities from other places in the Universe would build spaceships and fly them all the way to Earth might seem fascinating, it might not be the best long-term idea to have as one’s life focus. Planting orchards, teaching Sunday school, learning and using good manners, building furniture, raising children, developing flying cars and flying boats, starting a business, or any of an endless number of other activities, all can yield greater rewards and a richer life than obsessing over the remote possibility of the existence of extraterrestrials and UFO’s. Use your imagination to help you create real things and real results; do not allow fantasies to become your life. The risk of living in fantasy is that a person can come to his or her senses at the end of a lifetime having never had anything that was real.
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Curiously, now that so many people have cell phones with built-in cameras, claims of Unidentified Flying Objects sightings have dropped to nearly zero. You would think that just the opposite would be the case if UFO’s were real.
Experimental aircraft and other seemingly odd things can be seen in the sky from time to time. What does it mean? Inventors, governments, and other folks are simply going about their usual activities, which includes trying out new ideas.
“Maybe the Earth is a UFO, and we’re the aliens we have been looking for?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Absence
We’ve looked at the whole Solar System:
Mars, Venus, the Moon - you can list ‘em.
Wherever we roam,
There’s nobody home.
Perhaps they stepped out, and we missed ‘em?
By Author Unknown
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We can all still watch and enjoy movies about pretend space aliens and pretend people, and we can all still have fun in life, but we must not lose our focus on the real world, in which we live every moment.
Doris: What on Earth were the aliens doing on Earth?
Isadora: Looking for signs of intelligent life.
So, just what is the truth about extraterrestrials and UFO’s? Our conclusion is that alien spacecraft and space aliens have never visited Earth, given the lack of any real evidence, but every person is free to believe as he or she chooses.
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“IFO: Identified Flying Object.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Astro: On what kind of plates do space aliens serve their food?
Cosmo: Flying saucers!
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“Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.” -Albertus Magnus (about C.E. 1206 - about C.E. 1280)
“Maybe the Earth is a UFO, and we’re the aliens we have been looking for?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Absence
We’ve looked at the whole Solar System:
Mars, Venus, the Moon - you can list ‘em.
Wherever we roam,
There’s nobody home.
Perhaps they stepped out, and we missed ‘em?
By Author Unknown
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We can all still watch and enjoy movies about pretend space aliens and pretend people, and we can all still have fun in life, but we must not lose our focus on the real world, in which we live every moment.
Doris: What on Earth were the aliens doing on Earth?
Isadora: Looking for signs of intelligent life.
So, just what is the truth about extraterrestrials and UFO’s? Our conclusion is that alien spacecraft and space aliens have never visited Earth, given the lack of any real evidence, but every person is free to believe as he or she chooses.
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“IFO: Identified Flying Object.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Astro: On what kind of plates do space aliens serve their food?
Cosmo: Flying saucers!
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“Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.” -Albertus Magnus (about C.E. 1206 - about C.E. 1280)
Spaceship landmark in Mars, Pennsylvania, United States of America . . . strangely enough, the aliens were nowhere to be found . . .
“What is the name of your spaceship?” we asked. “We call it our ‘Imagination,’” the alien said.
We are MFOL! . . . and we explicitly deny being in possession of advanced alien technologies . . .
“What is the name of your spaceship?” we asked. “We call it our ‘Imagination,’” the alien said.
We are MFOL! . . . and we explicitly deny being in possession of advanced alien technologies . . .
“By associating with wise people, you will become wise yourself.” -Menander of Athens
“The truly wise are always simple - simple friendliness, simple decency, simple goodwill between man and man. It is the little mind that spins complications.” -Eugene P. Berlin
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“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“I wasn’t born a fool. It took work to get this way.” -Danny Kaye (also known as Danny Kolbin (born David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 - 1987)))
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“The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.” -Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
A wise person once said, “People who eat cookies in bed wake up feeling crummy.”
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“Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.” -Author Unknown: Scottish proverb
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A wise person once said, “Never argue with fool . . . he may be doing the same thing.”
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” -Euripides (484 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Bacchæ,” line 480
“The wise man is the one who, when he sees what ought to be done, does it today. The foolish man, when he sees what ought to be done, says, ‘I will do it tomorrow.’” -Author Unknown
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“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790 - 1793), ‘Proverbs of Hell,’ line 18
“Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.” -Author Unknown
Joyce: Why can’t you tell knock-knock jokes to simpletons?
Joy: Because they go to answer the door.
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“Do not seek after the sages of the past. Seek what they sought.” -Basho (Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694))
A wise person once said, “Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
Carey: Why did the simpleton eat a dollar bill?
Answer: It was his lunch money.
“A Fool and his Money are soon parted.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 98
“A fool and his money are soon parted, but how did they get together in the first place?” -Evan Esar (born Esar Levine (1899 - 1995))
“A fool and his money rarely get together to start with.” -Author Unknown
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“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.” -Charles Steinmetz (Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865 - 1923))
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A wise person once said, “A day without sunshine is like night.”
“Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.” -Will Henry
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“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.” -Tobias Smollett (1721 - 1771)
A wise person once said, “Practice moderation in everything, even in moderation itself.”
“Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.” -Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
A wise person once said, “No matter where you go, there you are.”
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“It is peculiarly a fool’s habit to discern the faults of others, and to forget his own.” -Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero, also known as Tully (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
A wise person once said, “You never know until you find out.” -Author Unknown
“He must be a fool indeed who cannot at times play the fool; and he who does not enjoy nonsense must be lacking in sense.” -William J. Rolfe
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“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “With great power comes great electricity bill.”
“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger; and mistaking foes for friends.” -Author Unknown
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” -Grantland Rice (Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice (1880 - 1954))
“There are more fools in the world than there are people.” -Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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A wise person once said, “Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, but not the same eight hours.”
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“Nearly four decades ago psychologist Stanley Milgram had a volunteer stand stock still on a busy New York sidewalk and look up at the sky. About one in every 25 passersby stopped to look up, too. When five volunteers were recruited to sky-gaze, nearly one in five passersby stopped to look up. When Milgram and his colleagues assembled a group of 18 volunteers to simultaneously look up at nothing in particular, nearly one in two passersby looked up to see what was going on, snarling traffic within moments.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “Washington Post” (December 2007) newspaper
“The wise man realizes how little he knows: it is the foolish person who imagines he knows everything.” -Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (also known simply as Colette (1873 - 1954))
“A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.” -Author Unknown
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” -Douglas Adams (Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001)): “Mostly Harmless” (1992) novel
“It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.” -Edsel Murphy
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“Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.” -Author Unknown
“I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.” -Alan Coren
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“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.” -Baltasar Gracián (Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601 - 1658))
“We all know a fool when we see one - but not when we are one.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1909))
A wise person once said, “Person who laughs last, does not get joke.”
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“It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“A word to a wise person is sufficient.” [translation to English]
“Verbum sapienti sat est.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“The truly wise are always simple - simple friendliness, simple decency, simple goodwill between man and man. It is the little mind that spins complications.” -Eugene P. Berlin
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“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“I wasn’t born a fool. It took work to get this way.” -Danny Kaye (also known as Danny Kolbin (born David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 - 1987)))
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“The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.” -Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
A wise person once said, “People who eat cookies in bed wake up feeling crummy.”
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“Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.” -Author Unknown: Scottish proverb
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A wise person once said, “Never argue with fool . . . he may be doing the same thing.”
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” -Euripides (484 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Bacchæ,” line 480
“The wise man is the one who, when he sees what ought to be done, does it today. The foolish man, when he sees what ought to be done, says, ‘I will do it tomorrow.’” -Author Unknown
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“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790 - 1793), ‘Proverbs of Hell,’ line 18
“Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.” -Author Unknown
Joyce: Why can’t you tell knock-knock jokes to simpletons?
Joy: Because they go to answer the door.
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“Do not seek after the sages of the past. Seek what they sought.” -Basho (Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694))
A wise person once said, “Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
Carey: Why did the simpleton eat a dollar bill?
Answer: It was his lunch money.
“A Fool and his Money are soon parted.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 98
“A fool and his money are soon parted, but how did they get together in the first place?” -Evan Esar (born Esar Levine (1899 - 1995))
“A fool and his money rarely get together to start with.” -Author Unknown
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“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.” -Charles Steinmetz (Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865 - 1923))
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A wise person once said, “A day without sunshine is like night.”
“Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.” -Will Henry
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“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.” -Tobias Smollett (1721 - 1771)
A wise person once said, “Practice moderation in everything, even in moderation itself.”
“Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.” -Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
A wise person once said, “No matter where you go, there you are.”
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“It is peculiarly a fool’s habit to discern the faults of others, and to forget his own.” -Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero, also known as Tully (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
A wise person once said, “You never know until you find out.” -Author Unknown
“He must be a fool indeed who cannot at times play the fool; and he who does not enjoy nonsense must be lacking in sense.” -William J. Rolfe
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“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “With great power comes great electricity bill.”
“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger; and mistaking foes for friends.” -Author Unknown
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” -Grantland Rice (Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice (1880 - 1954))
“There are more fools in the world than there are people.” -Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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A wise person once said, “Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, but not the same eight hours.”
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“Nearly four decades ago psychologist Stanley Milgram had a volunteer stand stock still on a busy New York sidewalk and look up at the sky. About one in every 25 passersby stopped to look up, too. When five volunteers were recruited to sky-gaze, nearly one in five passersby stopped to look up. When Milgram and his colleagues assembled a group of 18 volunteers to simultaneously look up at nothing in particular, nearly one in two passersby looked up to see what was going on, snarling traffic within moments.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “Washington Post” (December 2007) newspaper
“The wise man realizes how little he knows: it is the foolish person who imagines he knows everything.” -Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (also known simply as Colette (1873 - 1954))
“A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.” -Author Unknown
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” -Douglas Adams (Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001)): “Mostly Harmless” (1992) novel
“It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.” -Edsel Murphy
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“Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.” -Author Unknown
“I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.” -Alan Coren
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“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.” -Baltasar Gracián (Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601 - 1658))
“We all know a fool when we see one - but not when we are one.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1909))
A wise person once said, “Person who laughs last, does not get joke.”
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“It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“A word to a wise person is sufficient.” [translation to English]
“Verbum sapienti sat est.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
A wise person once said, “Folks often make fun of the wisdom of those they take for fools, while scarcely noticing the foolishness of those whom they imagine to be wise.”
“Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can’t remedy.” -Author Unknown
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“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“I am a member of the rabble, in good standing.” -Westbrook Pegler
A wise person once said, “A wise person lowers a ladder before he jumps into a pit.”
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“One fool makes many.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Polite Conversation” (1783), book
A wise person once said, “Take my advice - I’m certainly not using it.”
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A wise person once said, “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
A wise person once said, “Folks often make fun of the wisdom of those they take for fools, while scarcely noticing the foolishness of those whom they imagine to be wise.”
“Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can’t remedy.” -Author Unknown
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“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“I am a member of the rabble, in good standing.” -Westbrook Pegler
A wise person once said, “A wise person lowers a ladder before he jumps into a pit.”
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“One fool makes many.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Polite Conversation” (1783), book
A wise person once said, “Take my advice - I’m certainly not using it.”
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A Fool’s Guide To Life
Do you find day-to-day life hard? Do you wish life had an instruction booklet? Do you wish your brain had an owner’s manual? If you answered, “Yes,” to any of these questions, you have come to the right place. Following you will find, free of charge, a short ‘guide to life.’ In here, you will find most of the information you need to live life day by day without injuring yourself. Read carefully, and carry out each instruction exactly.
- Do not eat rocks.
- Do not take naps in the road.
- Do not throw a brick straight up.
- Do not breathe the exhaust from vehicles.
- Walk around toxic waste dumps, not through them.
- Do not stargaze with friends on a hilltop in a thunderstorm and use metal fishing rods as pointers.
- When putting on shoes, toes go in first, or TGIF.
- If you want to pound on the radiator to tell the landlord to turn up the heat, do not do it with your head.
- Do not make funny faces at angry bulls.
- Do not stick screwdrivers into electrical outlets.
- The warning ‘Do not try this at home’ really means ‘Do not try this at all.’
- Do not iron clothes while wearing them.
- Do not ride a sled down a hill that has a road at the bottom.
- Do not lick ice.
- Do not pour salt in your eyes.
- Your body has the correct number of holes in it. Do not make any more.
- Do not chase a bear in the woods to get a close-up photo.
- Do not chew on aluminum foil.
- Shovels are for digging holes in the ground, not in the floor of your house.
- Contrary to popular opinion, you are not supposed to strip the protective rubber coating off electrical wires before plugging them in.
- If you want to chew gum, buy some. Do not chew the gum from underneath the seats and desks at schools even though it is free.
- Do not kick stone walls.
- Even if you need to get downstairs quickly, do not jump out of a window - use the stairs.
- When using an acetylene torch, do not feel the flame to see if it is sufficiently hot.
- Better yet, stay away from acetylene torches altogether.
- Wear clothes.
- Use a potholder when removing items from the oven.
- No matter how tempting it is to join in and act like an animal, stay on the outside of all fences, cages, and other enclosures at the zoo.
- When sticking thumbtacks into bulletin boards, press on the flat ends.
What can you add to this list?
Do you find day-to-day life hard? Do you wish life had an instruction booklet? Do you wish your brain had an owner’s manual? If you answered, “Yes,” to any of these questions, you have come to the right place. Following you will find, free of charge, a short ‘guide to life.’ In here, you will find most of the information you need to live life day by day without injuring yourself. Read carefully, and carry out each instruction exactly.
- Do not eat rocks.
- Do not take naps in the road.
- Do not throw a brick straight up.
- Do not breathe the exhaust from vehicles.
- Walk around toxic waste dumps, not through them.
- Do not stargaze with friends on a hilltop in a thunderstorm and use metal fishing rods as pointers.
- When putting on shoes, toes go in first, or TGIF.
- If you want to pound on the radiator to tell the landlord to turn up the heat, do not do it with your head.
- Do not make funny faces at angry bulls.
- Do not stick screwdrivers into electrical outlets.
- The warning ‘Do not try this at home’ really means ‘Do not try this at all.’
- Do not iron clothes while wearing them.
- Do not ride a sled down a hill that has a road at the bottom.
- Do not lick ice.
- Do not pour salt in your eyes.
- Your body has the correct number of holes in it. Do not make any more.
- Do not chase a bear in the woods to get a close-up photo.
- Do not chew on aluminum foil.
- Shovels are for digging holes in the ground, not in the floor of your house.
- Contrary to popular opinion, you are not supposed to strip the protective rubber coating off electrical wires before plugging them in.
- If you want to chew gum, buy some. Do not chew the gum from underneath the seats and desks at schools even though it is free.
- Do not kick stone walls.
- Even if you need to get downstairs quickly, do not jump out of a window - use the stairs.
- When using an acetylene torch, do not feel the flame to see if it is sufficiently hot.
- Better yet, stay away from acetylene torches altogether.
- Wear clothes.
- Use a potholder when removing items from the oven.
- No matter how tempting it is to join in and act like an animal, stay on the outside of all fences, cages, and other enclosures at the zoo.
- When sticking thumbtacks into bulletin boards, press on the flat ends.
What can you add to this list?
A wise person once said, “If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.”
“A fool must now and then be right, by chance.” -William Cowper (1731 - 1800): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
A wise person once said, “Two wrongs do not make right, but two lefts make U-turn.”
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“Dare to be wise!” [translation to English]
“Sapere aude!” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” -Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744): “An Essay on Criticism” (1711), Part III, line 66
“The simple believe every word.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible”
A wise person once said, “Person who sits on floor will not fall off chair.”
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A wise person once said, “One who sits on tack gets point.”
He trudged along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of Thought.
-John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems” (1700), page 544, ‘Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace,’ lines 84 and 85 [translated to Modern English]
A wise person once said, “A neat desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.”
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A wise person once said, “A wise person listens no matter how boring someone is talking.”
“Silence is foolish if we are wise but wise if we are foolish.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
A wise person once said, “In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.”
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“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 13, verse 20
A wise person once said, “Person who thinks only of number one must remember this number is next to nothing.”
“A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.” -J. E. Houseman
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“Who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.” [translation to English]
“Qui vit sans folie n’est pas si sage qu’il croit.” [original French]
-François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)): “Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims” (1665 - 1678), Maxim 209
A wise person once said, “Starving person with one chopstick goes hungry.”
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“If forty million people say a foolish thing, it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “A Writer’s Notebook” (1946), page 76: ‘1901’
A wise person once said, “With time and patience, the banana at last becomes the monkey.”
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“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.” [translated to English]
“Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.” [original Latin]
-Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.): “Sententiae,” Maxim 914
“A fool must now and then be right, by chance.” -William Cowper (1731 - 1800): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
A wise person once said, “Two wrongs do not make right, but two lefts make U-turn.”
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“Dare to be wise!” [translation to English]
“Sapere aude!” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” -Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744): “An Essay on Criticism” (1711), Part III, line 66
“The simple believe every word.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible”
A wise person once said, “Person who sits on floor will not fall off chair.”
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A wise person once said, “One who sits on tack gets point.”
He trudged along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of Thought.
-John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems” (1700), page 544, ‘Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace,’ lines 84 and 85 [translated to Modern English]
A wise person once said, “A neat desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.”
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A wise person once said, “A wise person listens no matter how boring someone is talking.”
“Silence is foolish if we are wise but wise if we are foolish.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
A wise person once said, “In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.”
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“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 13, verse 20
A wise person once said, “Person who thinks only of number one must remember this number is next to nothing.”
“A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.” -J. E. Houseman
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“Who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.” [translation to English]
“Qui vit sans folie n’est pas si sage qu’il croit.” [original French]
-François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)): “Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims” (1665 - 1678), Maxim 209
A wise person once said, “Starving person with one chopstick goes hungry.”
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“If forty million people say a foolish thing, it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “A Writer’s Notebook” (1946), page 76: ‘1901’
A wise person once said, “With time and patience, the banana at last becomes the monkey.”
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“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.” [translated to English]
“Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.” [original Latin]
-Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.): “Sententiae,” Maxim 914
Simple Simon
Simple Simon met a pieman,
going to the fair;
Said Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Let me taste your ware.”
Said the pieman to Simple Simon,
“Show me first your penny,”
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Indeed, I have not any.”
Simple Simon went a-fishing
For to catch a whale;
All the water he could find
Was in his mother’s pail!
Simple Simon went to look
If plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much,
Which made poor Simon whistle.
He went to catch a dicky bird,
And thought he could not fail,
Because he had a little salt,
To put upon its tail.
He went for water with a sieve,
But soon it ran all through;
And now poor Simple Simon
Bids you all adieu.
By Author Unknown
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Simple Simon met a pieman,
going to the fair;
Said Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Let me taste your ware.”
Said the pieman to Simple Simon,
“Show me first your penny,”
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Indeed, I have not any.”
Simple Simon went a-fishing
For to catch a whale;
All the water he could find
Was in his mother’s pail!
Simple Simon went to look
If plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much,
Which made poor Simon whistle.
He went to catch a dicky bird,
And thought he could not fail,
Because he had a little salt,
To put upon its tail.
He went for water with a sieve,
But soon it ran all through;
And now poor Simple Simon
Bids you all adieu.
By Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “It is colder outside than it would be if it was warmer than it is.”
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
A wise person once said, “Grease monkey who goes to bed without bathing wakes up oily in the morning.”
A wise person once said, “If you do not give something, you will not get anything.”
“Fools are certain, but wise men hesitate.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “Person who lives in glass house should change clothes in basement.”
“The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 617
A wise person once said, “I am a fool, too, sometimes.”
A wise person once said, “I’m still waiting patiently for the wisdom that supposedly comes with age.”
A wise person once said, “At night it gets dark.”
A wise person once said, “Best time to buy new mattress, at first sign of spring.”
A wise person once said, “You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.”
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A wise person once said, “Person who attempts to stand on wall will soon be floored.”
A wise person once said, “Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.”
A wise person once said, “If you do not change the direction in which you are going, you will end up where you are headed.”
A wise person once said, “A smile is your personal welcome mat.”
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A wise person once said, “The reverse side also has a reverse side.”
A wise person once said, “To make eggroll, push it.”
A wise person once said, “Those who throw dirt, lose ground.”
A wise person once said, “Don’t take any wooden nickels! Wait! Wooden nickels might be antiques or valuable collectors’ items, so better accept them all!”
A wise person once said, “Every wise person started out by asking many questions.”
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Put a little fun in your day . . . with MFOL!
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
A wise person once said, “Grease monkey who goes to bed without bathing wakes up oily in the morning.”
A wise person once said, “If you do not give something, you will not get anything.”
“Fools are certain, but wise men hesitate.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “Person who lives in glass house should change clothes in basement.”
“The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 617
A wise person once said, “I am a fool, too, sometimes.”
A wise person once said, “I’m still waiting patiently for the wisdom that supposedly comes with age.”
A wise person once said, “At night it gets dark.”
A wise person once said, “Best time to buy new mattress, at first sign of spring.”
A wise person once said, “You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.”
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A wise person once said, “Person who attempts to stand on wall will soon be floored.”
A wise person once said, “Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.”
A wise person once said, “If you do not change the direction in which you are going, you will end up where you are headed.”
A wise person once said, “A smile is your personal welcome mat.”
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A wise person once said, “The reverse side also has a reverse side.”
A wise person once said, “To make eggroll, push it.”
A wise person once said, “Those who throw dirt, lose ground.”
A wise person once said, “Don’t take any wooden nickels! Wait! Wooden nickels might be antiques or valuable collectors’ items, so better accept them all!”
A wise person once said, “Every wise person started out by asking many questions.”
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“A little kiss can make a big difference.” -Author Unknown
“Give me a kiss to build a dream on.” -Composers Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Oscar Hammerstein II: “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” (1951) song
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“She said out of pity for him, ‘I shall give you a kiss if you like,’ but though he once knew, he had long forgotten what kisses are, and he replied, ‘Thank you,’ and held out his hand, thinking she had offered to put something into it. This was a great shock to her, but she felt she could not explain without shaming him, so with charming delicacy she gave Peter a thimble which happened to be in her pocket, and pretended that it was a kiss.” -J. M. Barrie (James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)): “Peter & Wendy” (1911), Chapter 6
Kisses
There’s a kiss to say I love you,
There’s a kiss to say I care.
There’s a kiss to prove our friendship,
There’s a kiss for us to share.
There’s a kiss to say it’s always,
There’s a kiss to say it’s true.
But the kiss I loved most,
Was the kiss I got from you.
By Author Unknown
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“You would think that, if our lips were made of horn, and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as birds.” -Thomas Buxton (Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786 - 1845))
Walking up to a department store’s fabric counter, a pretty girl said, “I want to buy this material for a new dress. How much does it cost?” ”Only one kiss per yard,” replied the smirking clerk. ”That’s fine,” replied the girl. “I’ll take ten yards.” With expectation and anticipation written all over his face, the clerk hurriedly measured out and wrapped the cloth, then held it out teasingly. The girl snapped up the package and pointed to a little old man standing beside her. “Grandpa will pay the bill,” she smiled.
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“Give me a kiss to build a dream on.” -Composers Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Oscar Hammerstein II: “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” (1951) song
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“She said out of pity for him, ‘I shall give you a kiss if you like,’ but though he once knew, he had long forgotten what kisses are, and he replied, ‘Thank you,’ and held out his hand, thinking she had offered to put something into it. This was a great shock to her, but she felt she could not explain without shaming him, so with charming delicacy she gave Peter a thimble which happened to be in her pocket, and pretended that it was a kiss.” -J. M. Barrie (James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)): “Peter & Wendy” (1911), Chapter 6
Kisses
There’s a kiss to say I love you,
There’s a kiss to say I care.
There’s a kiss to prove our friendship,
There’s a kiss for us to share.
There’s a kiss to say it’s always,
There’s a kiss to say it’s true.
But the kiss I loved most,
Was the kiss I got from you.
By Author Unknown
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“You would think that, if our lips were made of horn, and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as birds.” -Thomas Buxton (Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786 - 1845))
Walking up to a department store’s fabric counter, a pretty girl said, “I want to buy this material for a new dress. How much does it cost?” ”Only one kiss per yard,” replied the smirking clerk. ”That’s fine,” replied the girl. “I’ll take ten yards.” With expectation and anticipation written all over his face, the clerk hurriedly measured out and wrapped the cloth, then held it out teasingly. The girl snapped up the package and pointed to a little old man standing beside her. “Grandpa will pay the bill,” she smiled.
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“Kisses kept are wasted.” -Edmund Vance Cooke (Edmund Vance Cooke (1866 - 1932)): “Kisses Kept Are Wasted” poem
Bad Dream
There was an old man of Peru,
Who dreamed he was kissing his shoe.
He woke in the night
In a terrible fright,
And found that it was perfectly true!
By Author Unknown
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Bad Dream
There was an old man of Peru,
Who dreamed he was kissing his shoe.
He woke in the night
In a terrible fright,
And found that it was perfectly true!
By Author Unknown
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What is an Eskimo kiss? An ‘Eskimo kiss’ is a gesture among Inuits called a ‘kunik,’ in which a person presses or rubs the tip of his or her nose against another person’s cheek. It is commonly depicted, often for comedic affect, as people rubbing the tips of their noses together.
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“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.” -Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Keith.
Keith, who?
Keith me, thweetheart!
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“KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for “bliss.” It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.” -Ambrose Bierce (Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914)): “The Cynic’s Dictionary” (1906)
“Send your little child to bed happy. Whatever cares press, give it a warm good-night kiss as it goes to its pillow. The memory of this in the stormy years which fate may have in store for the little one will be like Bethlehem’s star to the bewildered shepherds. “My father, my mother, - loved me!” Fate cannot take away that blessed heart-balm. Lips parched with the world’s fever will become dewy again at this thrill of youthful memories. Kiss your little child before it goes to sleep.” -Charles Bullock (1871)
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[A kiss is] “A peculiar proposition. Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to lie for it, and the old man has to buy it. The baby’s right, the lover’s privilege, and the hypocrite’s mask. To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; and to an old maid, charity.” -Linus Price ‘Skipper’ Hayes (1906 - 1962): “V. P. I. Skipper” (about 1930) school paper
“To me, there is no greater act of courage than to be the one who kisses first.” -Janeane Garafolo (Janeane Marie Garofalo (born 1964))
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“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.” -Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Keith.
Keith, who?
Keith me, thweetheart!
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“KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for “bliss.” It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.” -Ambrose Bierce (Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914)): “The Cynic’s Dictionary” (1906)
“Send your little child to bed happy. Whatever cares press, give it a warm good-night kiss as it goes to its pillow. The memory of this in the stormy years which fate may have in store for the little one will be like Bethlehem’s star to the bewildered shepherds. “My father, my mother, - loved me!” Fate cannot take away that blessed heart-balm. Lips parched with the world’s fever will become dewy again at this thrill of youthful memories. Kiss your little child before it goes to sleep.” -Charles Bullock (1871)
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[A kiss is] “A peculiar proposition. Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to lie for it, and the old man has to buy it. The baby’s right, the lover’s privilege, and the hypocrite’s mask. To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; and to an old maid, charity.” -Linus Price ‘Skipper’ Hayes (1906 - 1962): “V. P. I. Skipper” (about 1930) school paper
“To me, there is no greater act of courage than to be the one who kisses first.” -Janeane Garafolo (Janeane Marie Garofalo (born 1964))
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“A kiss from my mother made me a painter.” -Benjamin West
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Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Richard III” (about 1591), Act I, scene 2, lines 172 and 173
Never a lip is curved with pain
That can’t be kissed into smile again.
-Bret Harte (Francis Bret ‘Bret’ Harte (1836 - 1902))
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Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Richard III” (about 1591), Act I, scene 2, lines 172 and 173
Never a lip is curved with pain
That can’t be kissed into smile again.
-Bret Harte (Francis Bret ‘Bret’ Harte (1836 - 1902))
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To nuzzle someone means to gently rub the nose and mouth against them to show affection.
“A passionate kiss burns the calories in one potato chip.” -Francis Sheridan Goulart (1989)
A one-minute kiss burns twenty-six calories.
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“A kiss is a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one.” -Author Unknown
“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.” -E. E. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 - 1962))
Jay: What do porcupines say when they kiss?
Robin: Ouch!
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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” -Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982)
“Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.” -Joey Adams (born Joseph Abramowitz (1911 - 1999))
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You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.
-Herman Hupfeld: “As Time Goes By” song in “Everybody’s Welcome” (1931) Broadway musical, also a leitmotif in “Casablanca” (1942) film
Philemaphobia, also called philematophobia, is a persistent fear of kissing. Kissing is how people get germs - it’s horribly disgusting - and so gross!
“Kissing don’t last; cookery do!” -George Meredith (1828 - 1909): “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel” (1859), Chapter 28
“A passionate kiss burns the calories in one potato chip.” -Francis Sheridan Goulart (1989)
A one-minute kiss burns twenty-six calories.
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“A kiss is a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one.” -Author Unknown
“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.” -E. E. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 - 1962))
Jay: What do porcupines say when they kiss?
Robin: Ouch!
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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” -Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982)
“Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.” -Joey Adams (born Joseph Abramowitz (1911 - 1999))
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You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.
-Herman Hupfeld: “As Time Goes By” song in “Everybody’s Welcome” (1931) Broadway musical, also a leitmotif in “Casablanca” (1942) film
Philemaphobia, also called philematophobia, is a persistent fear of kissing. Kissing is how people get germs - it’s horribly disgusting - and so gross!
“Kissing don’t last; cookery do!” -George Meredith (1828 - 1909): “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel” (1859), Chapter 28
“You have to kiss a lot of toads to find your handsome prince.” -Author Unknown
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“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. ‘Twas was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” -Judy Garland (pseudonym of Frances Ethel Gumm (1922 - 1969))
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1809 - 1894): “The Professor at the Breakfast Table” (1859), Chapter XI, first published in The Atlantic Monthly (May 1859)
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“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. ‘Twas was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” -Judy Garland (pseudonym of Frances Ethel Gumm (1922 - 1969))
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1809 - 1894): “The Professor at the Breakfast Table” (1859), Chapter XI, first published in The Atlantic Monthly (May 1859)
“People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.” -Bob Hope (Leslie Townes ‘Bob’ Hope (1903 - 2003))
“I’ve blown you a kiss. It’s on the way!” -Author Unknown
“I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.” -Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Polite Conversation,” Dialogue II
“Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.” -René Yasenek
Jenny Kissed Me
Jenny kiss’d me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who loves to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I’m growing old, but add
Jenny kiss’d me.
By Leigh Hunt (James Henry ‘Leigh’ Hunt (1784 - 1859)): as published in the “Monthly Chronicle” (November 1838)
“Your kiss is on my list of the best things in life.” -Author Unknown
We are MFOL! . . . why live life vicariously, when you can experience it for yourself . . .
“I’ve blown you a kiss. It’s on the way!” -Author Unknown
“I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.” -Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Polite Conversation,” Dialogue II
“Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.” -René Yasenek
Jenny Kissed Me
Jenny kiss’d me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who loves to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I’m growing old, but add
Jenny kiss’d me.
By Leigh Hunt (James Henry ‘Leigh’ Hunt (1784 - 1859)): as published in the “Monthly Chronicle” (November 1838)
“Your kiss is on my list of the best things in life.” -Author Unknown
We are MFOL! . . . why live life vicariously, when you can experience it for yourself . . .
“Good things come to those who wait - but better things come to those who work for it.” -Author Unknown
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“I was not born to wait.” -Gwenda Bond: “Double Down” (1 May 2016)
“Learn to have patience with people, just take it one step at a time in everything that you’re doing and just invest time in the people that you’re with . . . have patience with them, even if they’re not necessarily the easiest person to work with.” -Bethany Hamilton (Bethany Meilani Hamilton-Dirks (born 1990))
Once upon a time, there was a man who was very impatient with other people. To him, everyone seemed to be too slow to understand and too slow to do the right things. Also to him, people seemed too quick to come to the wrong conclusions and too quick to do the wrong things. The more the man had to deal with people, the more impatient he became with them, so he decided that he must get away from people until he could learn how to be patient. He built himself a little house deep in the woods, and far away from civilization, and lived as a hermit. Years later, a man was hiking through the woods, and met the impatient man. The hiker was amazed to find anyone living so deep in the woods and so far away from the rest of the world, so he asked the man why he was there all by himself. The man said that he was there to learn patience. The hiker asked how long he had been living all alone in the woods, and the man replied, “Thirty-one years.” Stunned, the hiker asked, “If there are no other people around you, how will you know when you have learned to be patient?” Annoyed by this lengthy conversation, the impatient man replied, “Go away, I have no time for you.”
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“I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
“Patience is not only a virtue, but an acquired trait.” -Christian Calhoun: “The Story Of My Life”
“The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.” -Croft M. Pentz (Croft Miner Pentz (1931 - 2008))
“If you wait until all the lights are ‘green’ before you leave home, you’ll never get started on your trip to the top.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?” -Paul Sweeney (born 1955)
“I learning that patience was far more than simply waiting for something to happen - patience required actively working toward worthwhile goals and not getting discouraged when results didn’t appear instantly or without effort.” -Dieter F. Uchtdorf (Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf (born 1940))
“Patience is a virtue. The Moon and the Sun learned long ago that, if each patiently waits its turn, they will both have their chance to shine.” -Author Unknown
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“You will develop patience if you wait long enough.” -Author Unknown
“Don’t wait for the ‘right time’ because it never comes. Just go ahead and do it now.” -Author Unknown
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“Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don’t give up.” -Author Unknown
This is life’s dilemma and it is sure as fate
Some things can’t be hurried and other things can’t wait.
-Author Unknown
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis and Aurelius Augustine (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430))
“Your capacity for patience will be rewarded eventually.” -Author Unknown
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“Patience is the ability to let your light shine after your fuse has blown.” -Bob Levey
“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.” -George Savile (also known as Lord Halifax (1633 - 1695))
“Even a waiter finally comes to him who waits.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
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“Have patience with all things, but first with yourself.” -Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
Overheard: Everything takes longer than you expect . . . except for the things you don’t want.
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“I was not born to wait.” -Gwenda Bond: “Double Down” (1 May 2016)
“Learn to have patience with people, just take it one step at a time in everything that you’re doing and just invest time in the people that you’re with . . . have patience with them, even if they’re not necessarily the easiest person to work with.” -Bethany Hamilton (Bethany Meilani Hamilton-Dirks (born 1990))
Once upon a time, there was a man who was very impatient with other people. To him, everyone seemed to be too slow to understand and too slow to do the right things. Also to him, people seemed too quick to come to the wrong conclusions and too quick to do the wrong things. The more the man had to deal with people, the more impatient he became with them, so he decided that he must get away from people until he could learn how to be patient. He built himself a little house deep in the woods, and far away from civilization, and lived as a hermit. Years later, a man was hiking through the woods, and met the impatient man. The hiker was amazed to find anyone living so deep in the woods and so far away from the rest of the world, so he asked the man why he was there all by himself. The man said that he was there to learn patience. The hiker asked how long he had been living all alone in the woods, and the man replied, “Thirty-one years.” Stunned, the hiker asked, “If there are no other people around you, how will you know when you have learned to be patient?” Annoyed by this lengthy conversation, the impatient man replied, “Go away, I have no time for you.”
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“I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
“Patience is not only a virtue, but an acquired trait.” -Christian Calhoun: “The Story Of My Life”
“The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.” -Croft M. Pentz (Croft Miner Pentz (1931 - 2008))
“If you wait until all the lights are ‘green’ before you leave home, you’ll never get started on your trip to the top.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?” -Paul Sweeney (born 1955)
“I learning that patience was far more than simply waiting for something to happen - patience required actively working toward worthwhile goals and not getting discouraged when results didn’t appear instantly or without effort.” -Dieter F. Uchtdorf (Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf (born 1940))
“Patience is a virtue. The Moon and the Sun learned long ago that, if each patiently waits its turn, they will both have their chance to shine.” -Author Unknown
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“You will develop patience if you wait long enough.” -Author Unknown
“Don’t wait for the ‘right time’ because it never comes. Just go ahead and do it now.” -Author Unknown
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“Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don’t give up.” -Author Unknown
This is life’s dilemma and it is sure as fate
Some things can’t be hurried and other things can’t wait.
-Author Unknown
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis and Aurelius Augustine (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430))
“Your capacity for patience will be rewarded eventually.” -Author Unknown
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“Patience is the ability to let your light shine after your fuse has blown.” -Bob Levey
“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.” -George Savile (also known as Lord Halifax (1633 - 1695))
“Even a waiter finally comes to him who waits.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
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“Have patience with all things, but first with yourself.” -Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
Overheard: Everything takes longer than you expect . . . except for the things you don’t want.
“Be patient with your impatience.” -Roy Masters (born 1928 as Reuben Obermeister)
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“Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Absalom and Achitophel” (1681), Part 1, line 1005; type of work: satiric poem
“If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” -Author Unknown
“Patience, is a virtue. Waiting too long, is a missed opportunity.” -Anthony T. Hincks
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“Patience is powerful.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
“In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
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“Patience is the ability to count down without blasting off.” -Author Unknown
“All things come to those who wait - provided they work continually while waiting.” -Author Unknown
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“All things come to him who goes after them.” -Author Unknown
“There is, however, a limit at which forbearance* ceases to be a virtue.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797): “Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation” (1769), volume i, page 273
*forbearance: patient self-control
Overheard: Patience is something that can only be learned by waiting.
“Patience is also a form of action.” -attributed to Auguste Rodin (also known as François Auguste René Rodin and Auguste-René Rodin (1840 - 1917)) in Leonard William Doob (1990): “Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection” (1990), page 124
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“There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.” -J. G. Holland (Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819 - 1881))
Macrophobia is a persistent fear of long waits. Personally, we are afraid of short waits. “The dentist will see you now.” “The tax auditor is ready to review your case.” “Oh, no . . . couldn’t we wait just a little longer?”
“Patience has its limits; take it too far, and it’s cowardice.” -Holbrook Jackson
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“Things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle*.” -attributed to Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
*hustle: to put forth effort energetically
“‘Patience is a virtue’ is always said by those who make others wait, and never by those who must wait.” -Author Unknown
Pay-Off
All things may come
To those who wait,
But when they do,
They’re out of date.
By George Hill
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“What is done hastily is not done well.” -Author Unknown
‘Hurry up and wait!’ could be the slogan of many individuals and organizations. Military people are familiar with this saying. People with government appointments may have heard this saying. People with medical appointments may suspect that this is what is going on. You make all kinds of advance preparations in order to be absolutely certain that you have everything ready that they require, and you make sure that you are not just on time, but at least a few minutes early - and what happens? You are made to wait for hours, because the people who insisted that you show up prepared and on time did not make the same efforts to be sure they were prepared and on time to meet you! It can be hard not to feel that these people do not respect you and that they are stealing your time away from you.
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” -John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
“How poor are they who have not patience!” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Othello” (1603), Act ii, Scene 3, line 376
Overheard: If I’m not back in five minutes . . . just wait longer!
Overheard: Thank you for your patience.
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“Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Absalom and Achitophel” (1681), Part 1, line 1005; type of work: satiric poem
“If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” -Author Unknown
“Patience, is a virtue. Waiting too long, is a missed opportunity.” -Anthony T. Hincks
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“Patience is powerful.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
“In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
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“Patience is the ability to count down without blasting off.” -Author Unknown
“All things come to those who wait - provided they work continually while waiting.” -Author Unknown
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“All things come to him who goes after them.” -Author Unknown
“There is, however, a limit at which forbearance* ceases to be a virtue.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797): “Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation” (1769), volume i, page 273
*forbearance: patient self-control
Overheard: Patience is something that can only be learned by waiting.
“Patience is also a form of action.” -attributed to Auguste Rodin (also known as François Auguste René Rodin and Auguste-René Rodin (1840 - 1917)) in Leonard William Doob (1990): “Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection” (1990), page 124
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“There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.” -J. G. Holland (Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819 - 1881))
Macrophobia is a persistent fear of long waits. Personally, we are afraid of short waits. “The dentist will see you now.” “The tax auditor is ready to review your case.” “Oh, no . . . couldn’t we wait just a little longer?”
“Patience has its limits; take it too far, and it’s cowardice.” -Holbrook Jackson
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“Things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle*.” -attributed to Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
*hustle: to put forth effort energetically
“‘Patience is a virtue’ is always said by those who make others wait, and never by those who must wait.” -Author Unknown
Pay-Off
All things may come
To those who wait,
But when they do,
They’re out of date.
By George Hill
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“What is done hastily is not done well.” -Author Unknown
‘Hurry up and wait!’ could be the slogan of many individuals and organizations. Military people are familiar with this saying. People with government appointments may have heard this saying. People with medical appointments may suspect that this is what is going on. You make all kinds of advance preparations in order to be absolutely certain that you have everything ready that they require, and you make sure that you are not just on time, but at least a few minutes early - and what happens? You are made to wait for hours, because the people who insisted that you show up prepared and on time did not make the same efforts to be sure they were prepared and on time to meet you! It can be hard not to feel that these people do not respect you and that they are stealing your time away from you.
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” -John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
“How poor are they who have not patience!” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Othello” (1603), Act ii, Scene 3, line 376
Overheard: If I’m not back in five minutes . . . just wait longer!
Overheard: Thank you for your patience.
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“Patience is the greatest of all virtues.” -Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato (233 B.C.E. - 148 B.C.E.))
“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873))
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“If you have been waiting for someone or something for so long that you can actually feel yourself getting older while you wait, then you can be sure that you have been waiting too long.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger.” [translation to English]
“Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia.” [original Latin]
-Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.): “Sententiae,” Maxim 289
“You’re trying to eat grass that isn’t there. Why don’t you give it a chance to grow?” -Richard Adams (1920 - 2016): “Watership Down” (November 1972)
“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.” -Larry McMurtry (born 1936): “Some Can Whistle” (1989)
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“Everything comes too late for those who only wait.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“Let us apply patience as well, for without patience nothing can be achieved. Verily, very often people give up a brilliant beginning only because of lack of patience. They forget that all great tasks are accompanied by difficulties, but by shunning those difficulties they condemn themselves to a fatiguing and endlessly reiterative course.” -Helena Roerich: “Letters of Helena Roerich,” Volume I (1929 - 1935)
“Patience will come to him who waits for it.” -Author Unknown
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” [translation to English]
“La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux.” [original French]
-Jean Chardin (1643 - 1713): “Voyages en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient” (1711), page 175
“Good things happen to those who wait. Better things happen to those who try.” -Author Unknown
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“Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” -Roy T. Bennett
“Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.” -Author Unknown: French proverb
“Whoever is patient has great understanding.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Proverbs’
“When you are tempted to lose patience with someone, think how patient God has been with you all the time.” -Author Unknown
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“Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet.” -Author Unknown
“When you are tempted to lose patience with God, remember how patient God has been with you.” -Author Unknown
“Patience is the art of hoping.” [translation to English]
“La patience est l’art d’espérer.” [original French]
-Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747): “Réflexions” (1746), CCLI
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“Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.” -T. H. Huxley (Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895))
“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.” -Guy Kawasaki (Guy Takeo Kawasaki (born 1954))
“The best things come to those who wait, but only if they do something while they wait.” -Author Unknown
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“But there are times when patience proves at fault.” -Robert Browning (1812 - 1889): “Paracelsus” (1835), scene 3
“Patience is not simply the ability to wait. It’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” -Joyce Meyer (born 1943 as Pauline Joyce Hutchison)
“Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It’s just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” -Eknath Easwaran: “Your Life Is Your Message” (1992)
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“Abused Patience turns to Fury.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 757
“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873))
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“If you have been waiting for someone or something for so long that you can actually feel yourself getting older while you wait, then you can be sure that you have been waiting too long.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger.” [translation to English]
“Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia.” [original Latin]
-Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.): “Sententiae,” Maxim 289
“You’re trying to eat grass that isn’t there. Why don’t you give it a chance to grow?” -Richard Adams (1920 - 2016): “Watership Down” (November 1972)
“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.” -Larry McMurtry (born 1936): “Some Can Whistle” (1989)
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“Everything comes too late for those who only wait.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“Let us apply patience as well, for without patience nothing can be achieved. Verily, very often people give up a brilliant beginning only because of lack of patience. They forget that all great tasks are accompanied by difficulties, but by shunning those difficulties they condemn themselves to a fatiguing and endlessly reiterative course.” -Helena Roerich: “Letters of Helena Roerich,” Volume I (1929 - 1935)
“Patience will come to him who waits for it.” -Author Unknown
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” [translation to English]
“La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux.” [original French]
-Jean Chardin (1643 - 1713): “Voyages en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient” (1711), page 175
“Good things happen to those who wait. Better things happen to those who try.” -Author Unknown
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“Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” -Roy T. Bennett
“Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.” -Author Unknown: French proverb
“Whoever is patient has great understanding.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Proverbs’
“When you are tempted to lose patience with someone, think how patient God has been with you all the time.” -Author Unknown
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“Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet.” -Author Unknown
“When you are tempted to lose patience with God, remember how patient God has been with you.” -Author Unknown
“Patience is the art of hoping.” [translation to English]
“La patience est l’art d’espérer.” [original French]
-Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747): “Réflexions” (1746), CCLI
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“Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.” -T. H. Huxley (Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895))
“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.” -Guy Kawasaki (Guy Takeo Kawasaki (born 1954))
“The best things come to those who wait, but only if they do something while they wait.” -Author Unknown
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“But there are times when patience proves at fault.” -Robert Browning (1812 - 1889): “Paracelsus” (1835), scene 3
“Patience is not simply the ability to wait. It’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” -Joyce Meyer (born 1943 as Pauline Joyce Hutchison)
“Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It’s just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” -Eknath Easwaran: “Your Life Is Your Message” (1992)
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“Abused Patience turns to Fury.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 757
“If the cat sits long enough at the hole, it will catch the mouse.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
“The things that come to those who wait may be the things left by those who got there first.” -Author Unknown
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“You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.” -Author Unknown
The two most common meanings of patience are as follows.
1. To wait without being frustrated, angry, complaining, and so forth.
2. To understandingly bear with the faults of others.
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“Patience is the ability to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without becoming angry or upset.” -Author Unknown
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 135): “Discourses,” Book I, chapter 15
“Even the nicest person’s patience has a limit.” -Author Unknown
“The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.” -Author Unknown
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“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881): “Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Autobiography” (1832) Part IV, Chapter V
“We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to our present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on. The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine; so does the heavenly principle within.” -William E. Channing (William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)): letter (2 September 1826)
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.” -Janette Oke (born 1935)
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“Be patient, but don’t wait forever for something that isn’t going to happen.” -Author Unknown
“Think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
“Waiting is one thing, but when people force us to wait for an exorbitant amount of time, they are actually taking a part of our lives away from us, because time is a measure of life.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“People wait all week for Friday, all year for Summer, all of a lifetime for happiness.” -Author Unknown
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“Impatience never commanded success.” -E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814 - 1880))
“There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.” -Jacob K. Javits (Jacob Koppel Javits (1904 - 1986))
A little boy was standing patiently at the bottom of an escalator in a big department store. A saleswoman asked him, “Sonny, are you lost?” The boy answered, “No ma’am, I’m waiting for my chewing gum to come back.”
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“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” -David G. Allen (born 1945)
“Be patient with people - nobody is perfect.” -Author Unknown
“In your patience ye* are strong.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning (born Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett (1806 - 1861)): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 444
* ye: you
“The man who is waiting for something to turn up might start on his shirt sleeves.” -Garth Henrichs (Garth Harold Henrichs, Senior (1903 - 2002))
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“He that can have patience can have what he will.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (June 1736)
“Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. Spring will come.” -Robert H. Schuller (Robert Harold Schuller (1926 - 2015))
“Never allow waiting to become a habit. You must take action now.” -Author Unknown
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“Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” -Author Unknown
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“The things that come to those who wait may be the things left by those who got there first.” -Author Unknown
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“You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.” -Author Unknown
The two most common meanings of patience are as follows.
1. To wait without being frustrated, angry, complaining, and so forth.
2. To understandingly bear with the faults of others.
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“Patience is the ability to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without becoming angry or upset.” -Author Unknown
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 135): “Discourses,” Book I, chapter 15
“Even the nicest person’s patience has a limit.” -Author Unknown
“The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.” -Author Unknown
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“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881): “Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Autobiography” (1832) Part IV, Chapter V
“We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to our present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on. The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine; so does the heavenly principle within.” -William E. Channing (William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)): letter (2 September 1826)
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.” -Janette Oke (born 1935)
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“Be patient, but don’t wait forever for something that isn’t going to happen.” -Author Unknown
“Think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
“Waiting is one thing, but when people force us to wait for an exorbitant amount of time, they are actually taking a part of our lives away from us, because time is a measure of life.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“People wait all week for Friday, all year for Summer, all of a lifetime for happiness.” -Author Unknown
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“Impatience never commanded success.” -E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814 - 1880))
“There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.” -Jacob K. Javits (Jacob Koppel Javits (1904 - 1986))
A little boy was standing patiently at the bottom of an escalator in a big department store. A saleswoman asked him, “Sonny, are you lost?” The boy answered, “No ma’am, I’m waiting for my chewing gum to come back.”
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“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” -David G. Allen (born 1945)
“Be patient with people - nobody is perfect.” -Author Unknown
“In your patience ye* are strong.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning (born Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett (1806 - 1861)): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 444
* ye: you
“The man who is waiting for something to turn up might start on his shirt sleeves.” -Garth Henrichs (Garth Harold Henrichs, Senior (1903 - 2002))
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“He that can have patience can have what he will.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (June 1736)
“Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. Spring will come.” -Robert H. Schuller (Robert Harold Schuller (1926 - 2015))
“Never allow waiting to become a habit. You must take action now.” -Author Unknown
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“Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” -Author Unknown
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“If you would like to change things in your life that seem too big to change all at once, could you be happy changing them a little at a time?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” -attributed to William James (1842 - 1910)
“Any day we wish, we can start the process of life change.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what’s right for you.” -Julie Morgenstern
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Lucy: Do you think anybody ever really changes?
Linus: I’ve changed a lot in the last year.
Lucy: I mean for the better.
-Charles M. Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000)): “Peanuts” comic strip
“Never assume that you’re stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.” -Henry F. Harrower
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“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” -Okakura Kakuzō (also known as Okakura Tenshin (1862 - 1913)): “The Book of Tea: Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life” (1906)
“Sometimes we must make a choice, to take a chance, or our lives will never change.” -Author Unknown
“The way things are is not the way things have to be.” -Emmanual Katongole and Chris Rice
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“Change takes some getting used to, but you were made to adapt to change and to thrive with it.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Making a big life change is scary. But, know what’s even scarier? Regret.” -Author Unknown
“There is yet time enough for you to take a different path.” -Author Unknown
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To change one’s life:
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly.
No exceptions.
-William James (1842 - 1910)
“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
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“Life is like an ever-changing kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.” -Sharon Salberg
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978): as quoted in the “Christian Science Monitor” (1 June 1989)
“Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” -Author Unknown
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“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890): “The Development of Christian Doctrine” (1834)
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))
“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” -Herbert Ottl
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” -attributed to William James (1842 - 1910)
“Any day we wish, we can start the process of life change.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what’s right for you.” -Julie Morgenstern
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Lucy: Do you think anybody ever really changes?
Linus: I’ve changed a lot in the last year.
Lucy: I mean for the better.
-Charles M. Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000)): “Peanuts” comic strip
“Never assume that you’re stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.” -Henry F. Harrower
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“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” -Okakura Kakuzō (also known as Okakura Tenshin (1862 - 1913)): “The Book of Tea: Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life” (1906)
“Sometimes we must make a choice, to take a chance, or our lives will never change.” -Author Unknown
“The way things are is not the way things have to be.” -Emmanual Katongole and Chris Rice
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“Change takes some getting used to, but you were made to adapt to change and to thrive with it.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Making a big life change is scary. But, know what’s even scarier? Regret.” -Author Unknown
“There is yet time enough for you to take a different path.” -Author Unknown
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To change one’s life:
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly.
No exceptions.
-William James (1842 - 1910)
“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
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“Life is like an ever-changing kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.” -Sharon Salberg
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978): as quoted in the “Christian Science Monitor” (1 June 1989)
“Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” -Author Unknown
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“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890): “The Development of Christian Doctrine” (1834)
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))
“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” -Herbert Ottl
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By Changing Your Thinking
By changing your thinking,
You change your beliefs;
When you change your beliefs,
You change your expectations;
When you change your expectations,
You change your attitude;
When you change your attitude,
You change your behavior;
When you change your behavior,
You change your performance;
When you change your performance,
You change your life.
By Author Unknown
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By changing your thinking,
You change your beliefs;
When you change your beliefs,
You change your expectations;
When you change your expectations,
You change your attitude;
When you change your attitude,
You change your behavior;
When you change your behavior,
You change your performance;
When you change your performance,
You change your life.
By Author Unknown
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“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” -Carol Burnett (Carol Creighton Burnett (born 1933))
“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
“It’s never too late to change your life.” -Author Unknown
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“Never be afraid to try something new - remember, it was amateurs who built the Ark and professionals who built the Titanic.” -Author Unknown
“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
“It’s never too late to change your life.” -Author Unknown
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“Never be afraid to try something new - remember, it was amateurs who built the Ark and professionals who built the Titanic.” -Author Unknown
“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.” -Richard Hooker (1554 - 1600)
“Once you make the decision to change, all kinds of things happen.” -Charles S. Dutton
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“Change is the only thing that will make things different.” -Author Unknown
“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon . . . everything’s different.” -Bill Waterson (William Boyd ‘Bill’ Waterson II (born 1958)): “Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes” cartoon
Affirmation: I want to change my life.
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“Change is the only evidence of life.” -Evelyn Waugh (Arthur Evelyn Saint John Waugh (1903 - 1966))
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” -Henri Bergson (Henri-Louis ‘Henri’ Bergson (1859 - 1941))
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” -Dan Millman (Daniel Jay Millman (born 1946)): “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives” (1980), words of character Socrates and not the actual historic person by that name; at https://www.peacefulwarrior.com/
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“Change happens through courage and perseverance.” -Author Unknown
“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
“The only thing constant in life is change.” -François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680))
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.” -Alvin Toffler (1928 - 2016)
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“Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” -Rob Siltanen: “Think Different” (1997 - 2002) advertising campaign for Apple, Inc.
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.” -Gurdjieff (1873 - 1949)
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“The nature o’* things doesn’t change, though it seems as if one’s own life was nothing but change. The square o’ four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man’s miserable as when he’s happy; and the best o’ working is, it gives you a grip hold o’ things outside your own lot.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “Adam Bede” (1859)
*o’: of
“I guess some people never change. Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.” -Author Unknown
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” -John Cage (John Milton Cage, Junior (1912 - 1992))
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))
“If you want things to change, you have to change. If you want things to be better, you have to be better.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“Change is not difficult, it is the resistance to change that is difficult.” -Author Unknown
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“Change is possible for nearly everyone; consider the wolf, which preys upon sheep, and then consider the domestic dog derived from it, which herds and protects sheep. However, any marked change is a process requiring time and sustained, deliberate effort.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Once you make the decision to change, all kinds of things happen.” -Charles S. Dutton
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“Change is the only thing that will make things different.” -Author Unknown
“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon . . . everything’s different.” -Bill Waterson (William Boyd ‘Bill’ Waterson II (born 1958)): “Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes” cartoon
Affirmation: I want to change my life.
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“Change is the only evidence of life.” -Evelyn Waugh (Arthur Evelyn Saint John Waugh (1903 - 1966))
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” -Henri Bergson (Henri-Louis ‘Henri’ Bergson (1859 - 1941))
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” -Dan Millman (Daniel Jay Millman (born 1946)): “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives” (1980), words of character Socrates and not the actual historic person by that name; at https://www.peacefulwarrior.com/
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“Change happens through courage and perseverance.” -Author Unknown
“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
“The only thing constant in life is change.” -François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680))
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.” -Alvin Toffler (1928 - 2016)
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“Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” -Rob Siltanen: “Think Different” (1997 - 2002) advertising campaign for Apple, Inc.
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.” -Gurdjieff (1873 - 1949)
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“The nature o’* things doesn’t change, though it seems as if one’s own life was nothing but change. The square o’ four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man’s miserable as when he’s happy; and the best o’ working is, it gives you a grip hold o’ things outside your own lot.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “Adam Bede” (1859)
*o’: of
“I guess some people never change. Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.” -Author Unknown
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” -John Cage (John Milton Cage, Junior (1912 - 1992))
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))
“If you want things to change, you have to change. If you want things to be better, you have to be better.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“Change is not difficult, it is the resistance to change that is difficult.” -Author Unknown
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“Change is possible for nearly everyone; consider the wolf, which preys upon sheep, and then consider the domestic dog derived from it, which herds and protects sheep. However, any marked change is a process requiring time and sustained, deliberate effort.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The only thing certain is nothing is certain.” -Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
“Times will change for the better when you change.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
“Don’t forget that sometimes even the smallest change can make a big difference.” -Author Unknown
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“Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by those involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.” -Gerald Brenan (1894 - 1987)
“To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“Changes happen, and life gets worse and better, and life somehow goes on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963))
“Old ways won’t open new doors.” -Author Unknown
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“Our only security is our ability to change.” -John Lyly (1554 - 1606)
“There is nothing permanent except change.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus (544 B.C.E. - 483 B.C.E.) (513 B.C.E.)
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797): letter (1792) to Hercules Langrishe
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.” -Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
“All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward!” -Author Unknown
“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.” -John Locke (1632 - 1704)
“Change almost always represents improvement of the human condition. Constancy almost always represents stagnation. In any event, change is certain. There’s no point in complaining about it. Natural history teaches that survival in a changing world does not depend on physical strength or on high intelligence. Survival depends on the ability to change.” -Alex Sanders
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948))
“All things are only transitory.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
“It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it.” -Sue Hadfield
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“All is flux; nothing stays still.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus (544 B.C.E. - 483 B.C.E.): as quoted by Plato: “Cratylus,” 402a
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“If you want any part of your life changed, forget about what you’re going to do this year and begin with this moment.” -Author Unknown
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“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those opening a new road.” -Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778)): as quoted in Ben Ray Redman, editor: “The Portable Voltaire” (1949)
“Change is inevitable. Because it is driven by expanding knowledge and technology, it is accelerating at a speed never seen before.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“Change is inevitable . . . except from vending machines.” -Author Unknown
“To the fearful, change is threatening because they worry that things may get worse. To the hopeful, change is encouraging because they feel things may get better.” -Buck Rogers
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“Change is difficult but often essential to survival.” -Lester Louis Brown
“All is change; all yields its place and goes.” -Euripides (484 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“You are not required to change all at once. You are required to be brave enough to make small changes one day a time.” -Mel Robins (Melanie Lee Robins (born Melanie Lee Schneeberger in 1968)) at MelRobbins.com
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“If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” -Author Unknown
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” -Ed Foreman (born 1933)
“Change before you have to.” -Jack Welch (John Francis ‘Jack’ Welch, Junior (born 1935))
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“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Razor’s Edge” (1943)
“In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.” -Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
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“It only takes one person to change your life - you.” -Ruth Casey
“To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.” -John Milton (1608 - 1674): as quoted in “Lycidas,” line 193: as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 93 through 96
“Turn over a new leaf.” -Thomas Dekker
“Be okay with where you are, even if you know you want to change.” -Author Unknown
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“Welcome change.” -Author Unknown
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))
“Change occurs gradually, and then suddenly.” -Author Unknown
“Someday change will be accepted as life itself.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
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“We can change your lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.” -Tony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960)) at https://www.tonyrobbins.com/
This is MFOL! . . . for everyone who is striving to be well-adjusted in an ever-changing world . . .
“Times will change for the better when you change.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
“Don’t forget that sometimes even the smallest change can make a big difference.” -Author Unknown
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“Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by those involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.” -Gerald Brenan (1894 - 1987)
“To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“Changes happen, and life gets worse and better, and life somehow goes on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963))
“Old ways won’t open new doors.” -Author Unknown
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“Our only security is our ability to change.” -John Lyly (1554 - 1606)
“There is nothing permanent except change.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus (544 B.C.E. - 483 B.C.E.) (513 B.C.E.)
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797): letter (1792) to Hercules Langrishe
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.” -Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
“All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward!” -Author Unknown
“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.” -John Locke (1632 - 1704)
“Change almost always represents improvement of the human condition. Constancy almost always represents stagnation. In any event, change is certain. There’s no point in complaining about it. Natural history teaches that survival in a changing world does not depend on physical strength or on high intelligence. Survival depends on the ability to change.” -Alex Sanders
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948))
“All things are only transitory.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
“It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it.” -Sue Hadfield
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“All is flux; nothing stays still.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus (544 B.C.E. - 483 B.C.E.): as quoted by Plato: “Cratylus,” 402a
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“If you want any part of your life changed, forget about what you’re going to do this year and begin with this moment.” -Author Unknown
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“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those opening a new road.” -Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778)): as quoted in Ben Ray Redman, editor: “The Portable Voltaire” (1949)
“Change is inevitable. Because it is driven by expanding knowledge and technology, it is accelerating at a speed never seen before.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“Change is inevitable . . . except from vending machines.” -Author Unknown
“To the fearful, change is threatening because they worry that things may get worse. To the hopeful, change is encouraging because they feel things may get better.” -Buck Rogers
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“Change is difficult but often essential to survival.” -Lester Louis Brown
“All is change; all yields its place and goes.” -Euripides (484 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“You are not required to change all at once. You are required to be brave enough to make small changes one day a time.” -Mel Robins (Melanie Lee Robins (born Melanie Lee Schneeberger in 1968)) at MelRobbins.com
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“If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” -Author Unknown
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” -Ed Foreman (born 1933)
“Change before you have to.” -Jack Welch (John Francis ‘Jack’ Welch, Junior (born 1935))
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“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Razor’s Edge” (1943)
“In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.” -Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
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“It only takes one person to change your life - you.” -Ruth Casey
“To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.” -John Milton (1608 - 1674): as quoted in “Lycidas,” line 193: as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 93 through 96
“Turn over a new leaf.” -Thomas Dekker
“Be okay with where you are, even if you know you want to change.” -Author Unknown
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“Welcome change.” -Author Unknown
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))
“Change occurs gradually, and then suddenly.” -Author Unknown
“Someday change will be accepted as life itself.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
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“We can change your lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.” -Tony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960)) at https://www.tonyrobbins.com/
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The Golden Rule
To do to others as I would
That they should do to me,
Will make me gentle, kind, and good,
As people ought to be.
By Author Unknown
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“People have got to understand that the commandment, “Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you” applies to animals, plants, and things, as well as to people. And that if it is regarded as applying only to people . . . then the animals, plants and things will, in one way or another, do as badly by man as man has done by them.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))
“May I do to others as I would they should do unto me.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.)
“The duty of man is plain and simple, and consists of but two points - his duty to God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.” -Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
The term ’Golden Rule,’ or ‘Golden law,’ began to be used widely in the early 17th century in Britain by Anglican theologians and preachers; the earliest known usage is in 1604 by two Anglicans, named Charles Gibbon and Thomas Jackson.
“. . . wish not for others what ye wish not for yourselves . . .” -Bahá’u’lláh (born Husayn-’Alí (1817 - 1892)): “Kitáb-i-Aqdas” (English: “The Most Holy Book”) (1873), 148
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“Love thy neighbor as thyself.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Leviticus,’ chapter 19, verse 18
“Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
To do to others as I would
That they should do to me,
Will make me gentle, kind, and good,
As people ought to be.
By Author Unknown
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“People have got to understand that the commandment, “Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you” applies to animals, plants, and things, as well as to people. And that if it is regarded as applying only to people . . . then the animals, plants and things will, in one way or another, do as badly by man as man has done by them.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))
“May I do to others as I would they should do unto me.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.)
“The duty of man is plain and simple, and consists of but two points - his duty to God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.” -Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
The term ’Golden Rule,’ or ‘Golden law,’ began to be used widely in the early 17th century in Britain by Anglican theologians and preachers; the earliest known usage is in 1604 by two Anglicans, named Charles Gibbon and Thomas Jackson.
“. . . wish not for others what ye wish not for yourselves . . .” -Bahá’u’lláh (born Husayn-’Alí (1817 - 1892)): “Kitáb-i-Aqdas” (English: “The Most Holy Book”) (1873), 148
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“Love thy neighbor as thyself.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Leviticus,’ chapter 19, verse 18
“Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
Slightly less well-known than The Golden Rule is The Golden Ruler . . .
“The good, which each follower of virtue seeks for himself, he will desire also for others.” -Baruch Spinoza (also known as Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict de Spinoza, Bento de Espinosa, Benedito de Espinosa and Benedict Spinoza, born as Benedito de Espinosa (1632 - 1677)): “Ethica” (1667), Part 4, Prop. XXXVII, as translated by R. H. M. Elwes
Then give to the world the best you have
And the best will come back to you.
-Madeline S. Bridges (pseudonym of Mary Ainge De Vere (1844 - 1920)): “Life’s Mirror,” stanza 1, lines 3 and 4; type of work: poem
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“The good, which each follower of virtue seeks for himself, he will desire also for others.” -Baruch Spinoza (also known as Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict de Spinoza, Bento de Espinosa, Benedito de Espinosa and Benedict Spinoza, born as Benedito de Espinosa (1632 - 1677)): “Ethica” (1667), Part 4, Prop. XXXVII, as translated by R. H. M. Elwes
Then give to the world the best you have
And the best will come back to you.
-Madeline S. Bridges (pseudonym of Mary Ainge De Vere (1844 - 1920)): “Life’s Mirror,” stanza 1, lines 3 and 4; type of work: poem
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Shown above is the Golden Rule Sign that hung above the door of the employee entrance of the Acme Factory in Toledo, Ohio, photographed in 1913. The factory was owned by the mayor of Toledo, Samuel M. Jones. The bottom three lines read, “Therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them,” quoting Jesus of Nazareth, from “The Bible,” ‘Book of Matthew,’ chapter 7, verse 12
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“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.” -Doug Dillon
“Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.” -Karen Armstrong
“An old nursemaid once made a comment to me that I’ve never forgotten: “I finds, Miss Evie, that you luck is how you treats people.” -Evelyn A. Benson
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“To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969): as quoted in Johnny Ong: ”Don’t Try to Live Your Life in One Day!” (2008), page 171
“Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and a good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.” -Henry Sidgwick: “The Methods of Ethics” (1874)
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“The question was once put to Aristotle how we ought to behave to our friends; and his answer was, ‘As we should wish them to behave to us.’” -Diogenes Laertius: “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers,” V:21
“Do unto others twenty percent better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.” -Linus Pauling (Linus Carl Pauling (1901 - 1994))
What is The Great Commandment? According to the Bible, Jesus Christ answered a question about the greatest commandment as follows: 37 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” (“The Bible,” ‘Matthew,’ chapter 22, verses 37 through 39 (NIV))
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“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.” -Doug Dillon
“Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.” -Karen Armstrong
“An old nursemaid once made a comment to me that I’ve never forgotten: “I finds, Miss Evie, that you luck is how you treats people.” -Evelyn A. Benson
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“To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969): as quoted in Johnny Ong: ”Don’t Try to Live Your Life in One Day!” (2008), page 171
“Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and a good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.” -Henry Sidgwick: “The Methods of Ethics” (1874)
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“The question was once put to Aristotle how we ought to behave to our friends; and his answer was, ‘As we should wish them to behave to us.’” -Diogenes Laertius: “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers,” V:21
“Do unto others twenty percent better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.” -Linus Pauling (Linus Carl Pauling (1901 - 1994))
What is The Great Commandment? According to the Bible, Jesus Christ answered a question about the greatest commandment as follows: 37 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” (“The Bible,” ‘Matthew,’ chapter 22, verses 37 through 39 (NIV))
“Say of others as you would want to be said of you.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“‘Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you’ is the greatest phrase ever written. If everyone followed that creed, this world would be a paradise.” -Stan Lee
In Charles Kingsley’s “The Water Babies” (1863) book, he includes two characters, a Mrs. Do-As-You-Would-Be-Done-By and a Mrs. Be-Done-By-As-You-Did.
Golden Rule Day is celebrated on 5 April each year.
“He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequence, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well-doing is, in itself, ample reward.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)): as attributed in Maturin M. Ballou: “Treasury of Thought” (1872), page 51
“One should seek for others the happiness one desires for one’s self.” -Author Unknown
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“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.” -Edwin Markham (born Charles Edward Anson Markham (1852 - 1940))
“How does one live The Golden Rule? By treating others with kindness, compassion, and respect, as one would treat oneself.” -Author Unknown
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“‘Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you’ is the greatest phrase ever written. If everyone followed that creed, this world would be a paradise.” -Stan Lee
In Charles Kingsley’s “The Water Babies” (1863) book, he includes two characters, a Mrs. Do-As-You-Would-Be-Done-By and a Mrs. Be-Done-By-As-You-Did.
Golden Rule Day is celebrated on 5 April each year.
“He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequence, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well-doing is, in itself, ample reward.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)): as attributed in Maturin M. Ballou: “Treasury of Thought” (1872), page 51
“One should seek for others the happiness one desires for one’s self.” -Author Unknown
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“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.” -Edwin Markham (born Charles Edward Anson Markham (1852 - 1940))
“How does one live The Golden Rule? By treating others with kindness, compassion, and respect, as one would treat oneself.” -Author Unknown
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