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Humanities 100

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true.
-----James Cabell

Let us be thankful for the fools.
But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
-----Mark Twain

What you do speaks so loud
that I can’t hear what you say.
-----Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble with talking too fast is
you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.
------Ann Landers

When you point one accusing finger at someone,
three of your own fingers point back at you.
------Louis Nizer

Judge men not by their opinions,
but by what their opinions have made of them.
-----Georg Lichtenburg

You can’t hold a man down
without staying down with him.
-----Booker T. Washington

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t,
and the other half who have nothing to say, and keep on saying it.
------Robert Frost

Much more grows in the garden than the gardener sows.
------Spanish Proverb

Nobody’s an accidental citizen walking down an accidental street.
-----William Burroughs

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
-----Ernest Hemingway

Winston, you’re drunk!
And you, Madam, are ugly;
but I shall be sober in the morning.
------Winston Churchill’s reply to Bessie Braddock, MP

They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.
-----Al Capone

I don’t know if there are men on the moon,
but if there are,
they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.
-----George Shaw

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen.
------Mark Twain

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
-----Sir John Seeley

He who cannot endure the bad
will not live to see the good.
-----Yiddish Proverb

Never borrow from the future.
If you live in dread of what may happen,
you have worried in vain.
Even if it does happen, you have worried twice.
-----Anonymous

There are two tragedies in life.
One is to lose your heart’s desire; the other is to gain it.
------George Bernard Shaw

From the day you’re born till the day you ride in a hearse,
there’s nothing so bad that it couldn’t get worse.
------Smokey Robinson

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming genuinely interested in other people,
than you can in two years
by trying to get other people interested in you.
-----Andrew Carnegie

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together,
to hurt you to the heart;
the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
-----Mark Twain

I’ll always love the false image I had of you.
-----found below a mural on Broadway in Seattle

The great question that has never been answered,
and which I have not yet been able to answer
despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is
What does a woman want!
Sigmund Freud

A woman is like a teabag.
It’s only when she’s in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
-----Address to the U.S. Women’s Congress 1981

Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
-----Billie Holliday

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
And It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-----Ralph Waldo Emerson

The better part of one’s life consists of one’s friendships.
-----Abraham Lincoln

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them.
  that’s the essence of inhumanity.
-----Unknown

Don’t part with your illusions.
When they are gone, you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
-----Mark Twain

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best.
If you’re not, pretend you are.
-----Muhammad Ali

History is a fable, agreed upon.
-----Napoleon Bonaparte

There’s a war out there, old friend, a world war,
and it’s not about who’s got the most bullets;
it’s about who controls the information--
what we see and what we hear;
how we work and what we think.
It’s all about the information.
-----Cosmo Snakes

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory,
he should never venture to lie.
-----Michel de Montaigne

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
-----Muhammad Ali

You do not like them.
So you say.
Try them! try them!
And you may.
Try them and you may, I say.
-----Dr. Seuss

We have art in order not to die from the truth.
-----Nietzche

If you’re going to die, die doing what you love to do.
-----G. Bernard Shaw

A great many people think they are thinking
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-----William James

Birth, and copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
-----Sweeney Agonistes, Fragments ... T. S. Eliot

Once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
-----Jimi Hendrix

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool,
a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
-----Shalom Aleichem

We should all be concerned about the future
because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
-----Charles Kettering

Life is not always what one wants it to be,
but to make the best of it as it is
is the only way of being happy.
-----Jennie Churchill

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-----Eleanor Roosevelt

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.
-----Thomas Jefferson

Thinking is the hardest work there is,
which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
-----Henry Ford

Conversation is the enemy of food and good wine.
-----Alfred Hitchcock

You may be right and I may be wrong.
-----Karl Popper

If you throw your shoe at me,
may you walk home on broken glass.
-----Bare Naked Ladies

If you doubt the worth of money,
ask to borrow it.
-----Benjamin Franklin

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it,
than to consume wealth without producing it.
-----George Shaw

Justice is the interest of the strong.
-----Anaxagoras

Justice is nothing but the interest of the stronger.
-----Thrasymachus

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for,
he isn’t fit to live.
-----Martin Luther King

Almost every man wastes part of his life
in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess,
and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
-----Samuel Johnson

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
-----Vince Lombardi

I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious.
-----Albert Einstein

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter.
If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
-----Jack Benny

It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
-----Lou Pinella