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Familiar and Unfamiliar Quotations (norvig.com)

The work is forgotten, kindness and love remains

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

I'm gonna shoot 'em on general principle

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

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

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

Past glories are poor feeding

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

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

Cast aside fear and regret, do the deed at hand

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

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

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

A man's got to know his limitations

Oh well, whatever, never mind

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

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

Success comes from genuine interest

Is this the most important thing you should work on?

Happiness, only real when shared

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

Consider beginnings

You cannot find peace by avoiding life

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

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

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

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

Do nothing in anger

Let's take the backstreet

Do not lie to yourself

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

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

California dreamin' On such a winter's day

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

Action is the antidote to despair

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

Life is a great balancing act

Judge less, accept more

How would your best version handle this?

O snail Climb Mount Fuji, But slowly, slowly!

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known

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

Fear is the path to the dark side

There will come soft rains

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

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

Suspend judgment

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

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

Nothing new under the sun

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

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

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

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

Criticize less, appreciate more

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

Dust to dust

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

Walk slowly but walk

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

What are men to rocks and mountains?

A fit, healthy body is the best fashion statement

Don't be unhappy before the crisis comes

All is well that ends well

Come out better on the other side

Good is better than perfect

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

Expect less, give more

It's not personal

Each of us can heal

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

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

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is

Suit up!

Take a sad song and make it better

False hopes are dangerous

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Are you still young and dumb enough to know everything?

Nature doesn't make long speeches

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional

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

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

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

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

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

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

Create more than you consume

All along the watchtower, princes kept a view

I jump to conclusions and oversimplify

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

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

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

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

Environment affects us more than we suspect

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

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

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

Any fool can know. The point is to understand

The world needs a wash and a week's rest

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

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

Action is the antidote to despair

You make your habits, then your habits make you

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

Courage is found in unlikely places

Why do you fight with yourself?

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

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

Resist much, obey little

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness

Go take a walk

If you are going through hell, keep going

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

It's not personal

Everything you can imagine is real

This is it

There is only one day left, always starting over

C'est la vie

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

Predicting the future is overrated

Hell is truth seen too late

Don't panic

You become what you give your attention to

Mistakes of others are easier to notice than our own

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

I wandered lonely as a cloud

A distracted mind is a weak mind

Focus on what is important

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

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

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

You can choose a different path

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

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

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

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

Don't take yourself too seriously

How miserable to acquire by toil and keep by worry

Expect less, appreciate more

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

What do you NOT want in life?

It's impossible. No, it's necessary

Go take a walk

Ride ride for ruin And the world's ending

I see my red door and I want it painted black

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'

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

Ashes to ashes

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemy of freedom

Truth has many faces

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

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

Chop wood, carry water

The first draft of anything is shit

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

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

Enjoy the sun

Stay humble

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

Walk no more in shadows

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

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

Judge less, accept more

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

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

Time is heavy only when it is empty

Was du erlebst, kann keine macht der Welt dir rauben

Hands of a king are hands of a healer

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

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

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple

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

Lay your weary head to rest

Hope itself is often better than what you are hoping for

I'm not young enough to know everything

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter

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

Have little and gain much Have much and be confused

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason

Whatever you are, be a good one

You can always choose your way

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

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

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

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

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

Do. Or do not. There is no try

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

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

Focus on what is in your control

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

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him

Half doing is an expensive way of not doing

There are years that ask questions and years that answer

Wealth is being content, greed is a curse

Neither blame yourself nor others

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do

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

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

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire

The future depends on what you do today

Leave it better than you found

Give support, not advice

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

These violent delights have violent ends

We wear the mask that grins and lies

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

Love is the absence of judgment

Happiness is getting enough sleep, nothing more

古池や 蛙飛び込む 水の音

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple

It's too easy to take good health for granted

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

The hour's getting late

We deal out judgment to others and seek understanding for ourselves

Things flourish then perish

Look below the surface

Don't be a try-hard

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

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

Past and future are only in your head

Grinding your wheels won't solve your problem

Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished

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

No good deed goes unpunished

Don't let the bastards grind you down

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

Be here and now

The weak can never forgive

I pensieri stretti ed il viso sciolto

The planet is fine. The people are fucked

What would your best version do?

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

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

Short cuts make long delays

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

Being busy is wasting time

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

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

Il faut cultiver notre jardin

April is the cruellest month

What does your heart tell you?

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

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

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

For even the very wise cannot see all ends

Make it work but also make it beautiful

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight

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

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

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

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

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

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

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

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

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

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

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer

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

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

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

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

The world owes you nothing. It was here first

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

..Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow

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

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

Take a walk

Comparison is the thief of joy

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

It has to be simple to be reliable

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

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

Context is worth 80 IQ points

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart

Difficulties vanish when faced boldly

Don't think or judge, just listen

Still waters run deep

Enabling great good also enables great evil

What is better than freedom and love?

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

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

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

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

Sic vita est

So it begins

Take the best and spread it around

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

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

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

The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated

..silhouettes of strange illuminated mannequins

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

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

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

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

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

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see

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

Everybody gotta learn sometime

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference

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

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

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

When you get it, will you still want it?

The point is, who will stop me?

My course is set for an uncharted sea

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

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

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

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

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

Right words sound wrong

Need little, want less

Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes

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

Give your mind some space

The best way to predict the future is to create it

What happens to a dream deferred?

Wherever you go, there you are

Fear is the mind-killer

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

Exercise is a wonder drug

Sub specie aeternitatis

Expect everything, there might be no tomorrow morning for you

Success is being free

Neither blame yourself nor others

Don't bother to impress anyone, impress yourself

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally

..living as playing music

In the white room with black curtains Near the station

Desire is the mind-killer

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

Wars not make one great

If you realized, you'd be cheerful

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

Hope excites more hope, ambition more ambition

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

Nothing really matters, Anyone can see

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

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

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

Outta order? I'll show you outta order!

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple

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

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer

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

Expect less, appreciate more

Soft overcomes hard Weak overcomes strong

Never miss a good chance to shut up

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

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change

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

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

I'd rather be happy than right any day

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

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

Nothing in excess

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

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

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

Know where to stop

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