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This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise with the occasion.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
- Abraham Lincoln
Let us celebrate the occasion
with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
The people of the world genuinely want peace.
Some day the leaders of the world are going to
have to give in and give it to them.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
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Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
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You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
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