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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. – William Arthur Ward	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day – David Grayson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Frank Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you get married, and you're supposed to be this entirely different guy. I don't feel different. I mean, take yesterday for example. We were out at the Olive Garden for dinner, which was lovely. And uh, I happen to look over at a certain point during the meal and see a waitress taking an order, and I found myself wondering what color her underpants might be. Her panties. Uh, odds are they are probably basic white, cotton, underpants. But I sort of think well maybe they're silk panties, maybe it's a thong. Maybe it's something really cool that I don't even know about. You know, and uh, and I started feeling... what what I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not – Old School	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. – Christy Mathewson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater. – Epictetus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. – Thomas Paine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value. – Thomas Paine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. – Godfather, The	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Tony Montana Say hello to my little friend – Scarface	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. – Elbert Hubbard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child. – Forest Witcraft	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. – William Makepeace Thackeray	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. – Frank Herbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind. – Harold Taylor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Pat Healy Really, it's only a side thing for my true passion. Mary And what's that Pat Healy I work with retards. Mary Isn't that a little politically incorrect Pat Healy Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with. – There's Something About Mary	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. – Orison Swett Marden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. – Robert Frost	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. – Hume	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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