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Familiar and Unfamiliar Quotations (norvig.com)

Love is the absence of judgment

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness

Only with the heart one can see, what is essential is invisible to the eye

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemy of freedom

Context is worth 80 IQ points

Exercise is a wonder drug

And you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'

Treat the small as large, the few as many, easy as hard

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes

In the white room with black curtains Near the station

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, you'll be criticized anyway

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him

Ashes to ashes

The world owes you nothing. It was here first

What would your best version do?

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream

..Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow

Whether to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

Walk no more in shadows

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved

The hour's getting late

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is

Many that live deserve death And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him

I see my red door and I want it painted black

You can't argue with all the fools in the world

Expect less, appreciate more

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again

If you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Still waters run deep

We wear the mask that grins and lies

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well

Everybody gotta learn sometime

Wars not make one great

Set aside your opinion, listen with a beginner's mind

Enabling great good also enables great evil

Things flourish then perish

Life will follow its path, neither reverse nor check its course, nor remind you of its swiftness, but glide on quietly

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting

Go take a walk

Never wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it

It's not personal

O snail Climb Mount Fuji, But slowly, slowly!

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat

The work is forgotten, kindness and love remains

And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up

The planet is fine. The people are fucked

You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart

And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last

Fear leads to anger Anger leads to hate Hate leads to suffering

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it

The point is, who will stop me?

Give support, not advice

Chop wood, carry water

The truth is rarely pure and never simple

Why do you fight with yourself?

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do

Make it work but also make it beautiful

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer

Fear is the mind-killer

The world needs a wash and a week's rest

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out

Need little, want less

If you know when to stop, you are in no danger

I'd rather be happy than right any day

Take a walk

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live

Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden

You can have too much liberty, equality, or truth, yet not too much justice

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

Do nothing against your will, nor against community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy

Judge less, accept more

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost

Don't be so humble, you're not that great

Old pond... a frog jumps in water's sound

Mistakes of others are easier to notice than our own

Hell is truth seen too late

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city

Are you still young and dumb enough to know everything?

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out

Stay humble

No one will bring back the years; no one will restore you to yourself

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity

Nothing in excess

Cast aside fear and regret, do the deed at hand

We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow

Wherever you go, there you are

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

We overvalue people we don't know and undervalue those we do

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'

Do not lie to yourself

If you realized, you'd be cheerful

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle

Stand at the brink of the abyss of despair, and when you see that you cannot bear it anymore, draw back a little and have a cup of tea

So through the night rode Paul Revere; In the hour of darkness and peril and need

Life is a great balancing act

The weak can never forgive

Treat people with kindness and respect, out of principle, even when they don't deserve it

Finish each day and leave the old nonsense behind. Tomorrow is a new day

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she seldom followed it)

Don't think or judge, just listen

Give your mind some space

Sic vita est

Take the best and spread it around

Suit up!

Focus on what is in your control

A fit, healthy body is the best fashion statement

Dust to dust

Good is better than perfect

Don't let the bastards grind you down

Truth has many faces

Expect less, appreciate more

Courage is found in unlikely places

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular

Happiness, only real when shared

When you get it, will you still want it?

Don't panic

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it

Action is the antidote to despair

There will come soft rains

You don't have to get everything right. Define the few that must be right, and let go of the rest

..The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river Forever and ever

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool

Focus on what is important

Each of us can heal

Never miss a good chance to shut up

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

Success comes from genuine interest

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

Let not future troubles you, for you will have the same reason

Past and future are only in your head

California dreamin' On such a winter's day

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

Suspend judgment

Be kind to yourself. If you won't, who will?

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense

古池や 蛙飛び込む 水の音

Soft overcomes hard Weak overcomes strong

..The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here

Criticize less, appreciate more

How would your best version handle this?

..With all memory and fate, Driven deep beneath the waves

Reality doesn't go away when you stop believing in it

Don't compromise yourself, you're all you have

How much of our lives have we spent fighting shadows rather than simply enjoying the sun?

Life is what happens when you're not looking at a screen

Nature doesn't make long speeches

Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt!

You can always choose your way

Go take a walk

Action is the antidote to despair

Was du erlebst, kann keine macht der Welt dir rauben

Oh well, whatever, never mind

This is not misfortune, to bear this worthily is good fortune

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known

With every mistake, We must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me

Judge less, accept more

There is only one day left, always starting over

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not

What are the most important problems in your field, and why are you not working on them?

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

Take a sad song and make it better

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people's hands

Beautiful is the moment, When the heart indifferent But finds time to just be

Being busy is wasting time

Think of yourself as dead You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly

You cannot find peace by avoiding life

You become what you give your attention to

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

All along the watchtower, princes kept a view

Resist much, obey little

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be

Neither blame yourself nor others

How miserable to acquire by toil and keep by worry

Environment affects us more than we suspect

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours

What is better than freedom and love?

Often times we call a man cold when he is only sad

I have substituted myself for providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me his place to punish the wicked

hollowed out, clay makes a pot where the pot is not, is where it's useful

It's only a drop of possible troubles all could go wrong yet only a few did

Whatever you are, be a good one

Desire is the mind-killer

Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished

C'est la vie

We deal out judgment to others and seek understanding for ourselves

Is this the most important thing you should work on?

This is it

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Success is being free

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it

My course is set for an uncharted sea

The pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits, and don't magnify them in your imagination

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of mind

You must make a decision that you are going to move on

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig

Know where to stop

Look below the surface

Lay your weary head to rest

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

It won't be as good as you hope, neither as bad as you fear

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

Hands of a king are hands of a healer

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer

Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile

The more I see, the less I know, the more I like to let it go

Neither blame yourself nor others

It's not personal

Short cuts make long delays

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it

Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes

There must be some kind of way outta here, Said the joker to the thief

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch

It's good to learn from your mistakes, even better to learn from the mistakes of others

The future is not written yet It depends on what you do today

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do

Enjoy the sun

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

I jump to conclusions and oversimplify

Grinding your wheels won't solve your problem

I don't know enough about this to have an opinion

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin'

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple

It has to be simple to be reliable

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once

The best way to predict the future is to create it

I look at the world And I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps

For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'

You can choose a different path

Walk slowly but walk

Past glories are poor feeding

Fear is the path to the dark side

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can

You make your habits, then your habits make you

I pensieri stretti ed il viso sciolto

Time is heavy only when it is empty

Sub specie aeternitatis

All is well that ends well

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness

Hope itself is often better than what you are hoping for

All in all it's just another brick in the wall

The trouble with an open mind is that people will try to put things in it

Nothing really matters, Anyone can see

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional

There are years that ask questions and years that answer

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't

Come out better on the other side

Consider beginnings

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple

These violent delights have violent ends

If you are going through hell, keep going

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you

Nothing new under the sun

The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven

Don't bother to impress anyone, impress yourself

How would you live if you had two years left? You may even have less

Stupidity is not ignorance, it is using the wrong mental model

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking

Any fool can know. The point is to understand

If you can't forgive others, how can you forgive yourself?

What do you NOT want in life?

..Be a simple man, be something you love and understand

April is the cruellest month

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see

Do. Or do not. There is no try

The first draft of anything is shit

..living as playing music

Comparison is the thief of joy

False hopes are dangerous

The great way is low and plain, but people like shortcuts over the mountains

...remember that what has once been done may be done again

Leave it better than you found

Don't be unhappy before the crisis comes

A distracted mind is a weak mind

I don't need no arms around me And I don't need no drugs to calm me

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with

Expect less, give more

It's impossible. No, it's necessary

On the day they were to kill him, Santiago Nasar arose at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat carrying the bishop

What happens to a dream deferred?

Predicting the future is overrated

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight

Il faut cultiver notre jardin

So it begins

The future depends on what you do today

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid

I'm not young enough to know everything

For even the very wise cannot see all ends

Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

It's too easy to take good health for granted

Be here and now

Difficulties vanish when faced boldly

Hope excites more hope, ambition more ambition

..silhouettes of strange illuminated mannequins

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Don't be a try-hard

No good deed goes unpunished

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger

Do nothing in anger

A man's got to know his limitations

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The best lack all conviction, while the worst, Are full of passionate intensity

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter

The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated

Wealth is being content, greed is a curse

I'm gonna shoot 'em on general principle

Don't take yourself too seriously

Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise

Have little and gain much Have much and be confused

Happiness is getting enough sleep, nothing more

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Let's take the backstreet

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago

Ride ride for ruin And the world's ending

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out

Outta order? I'll show you outta order!

Right words sound wrong

What does your heart tell you?

The price of freedom is dear yet it's worth it

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead

Half doing is an expensive way of not doing

I have seen these trees innumerable times yet have I appreciated them?

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple

Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop

Expect everything, there might be no tomorrow morning for you

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone

How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps on the sand?

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Everything you can imagine is real

Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed

Create more than you consume

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