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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I am trying to own my own opinions
and offer what I know as an option,
just as I would present a tray of appetizers for my guests.
Here are several choices that I have created -
if one looks good you are welcome to take it.
In other words, I am training myself to say,
"May I tell you how it is for me?"
When I ask the question, it means waiting
for the invitation to share.
It also means being prepared for my friend to say,
"No." They don't want to know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
I'm not talking about lust.
A woman in lust wants chocolate.
A woman in love wants diamonds.
- the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
Some'll rob you with a six gun,
Some with a fountain pen.
- Woody Guthrie
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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