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Stupid is as stupid does. ...
by Forrest

Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)

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If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw

Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein

I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin

A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill

People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare

A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez

He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu

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)

A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

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

Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie