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It's easy to have fun while you're making money.
The challenge is to make money while you're having fun.
The first casualty of war may be the truth,
but the first truth of war has always been the casualties.
The best thing about the battle between the sexes
is often the sex between the battles.
The bad news: we often find ourselves in trouble.
The good news: in trouble, we often find ourselves.
When we're young, we test the limits.
When we're old, we limit the testing.
The secret of having it all is not having it all.
The most important things to listen to
are the things we don't want to hear.
Bluntness is a clumsy attempt to make a fine point.
Always try to do your best, no matter how bad you feel,
and always try to feel your best, no matter how bad you do.
Life has a way of keeping things in balance.
Just when someone great sees you as small,
There's always someone small who sees you as great.
If humility is the strength of the weak,
then hubris is the weakness of the strong.
We live better when we save a little,
and we save better when we live a little.
The wisest course of action is usually one in which
the head is influenced by the heart,
and the heart by the head.
By understanding myself, I better understand others
and by understanding others, I better understand myself.
(With a tip of the hat to Katherine Mansfield)
In infancy, we learn to wrinkle our faces,
in old age, we learn to face our wrinkles.
Never make the mistake of confusing
the things of importance
with the importance of things.
If you want to teach, you must learn,
and if you really want to learn, you must teach.
Being too strong is a sign of weakness.
In addition to putting your knowledge into action,
Don't forget to put a little action into your knowledge.
Taking a photograph requires opening a shutter.
We usually say, "What a difference a day makes."
But when somebody makes a much-needed change,
we can also say, "What a day a difference makes."
Being helpful is sometimes
the most unhelpful thing a person can do.
When a man listens to a woman,
she takes pleasures in his interest;
and if he continues to play his cards right,
she might even take interest in his pleasure.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Always remember:
If you want love in your life,
make sure you put some life into your love.
The only people not welcome
at youth hostels
are hostile youths.
It's easy to have fun while you're making money;
the challenge is to make money while you're having fun.
We don't see things the way they are,
we are because of the way we see things.
Almost all politicians dream of becoming great,
but few great people dream of becoming politicians.
Non-conforming youth may be the biggest conformists of them all.
The only thing more predictable than
the certainty of ignorance
is the ignorance of certainty.
Every man can be a father,
but a father is not always a man.
Marriage doesn't fail to meet the demands of people,
people fail to meet the demands of marriage.
Never treat life like a game
or a game like life.
Throughout the history of courtship,
unchaste women have been the most chased
and chaste women the most unchased.
Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have
resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.
Because bad times can be good for us
and good times can be bad for us,
it's an essential mark of maturity to be able
to tell the good bad times from the bad good times.
While it's foolish to overestimate the extent of your wisdom,
it's wise to overestimate your capacity for foolishness.
When writing becomes difficult, try speaking the words;
when speaking becomes difficult, try writing them down.
When we're young, everything is possible;
when we're old, possibilities are everything.
People can be divided into two groups,
those who want to be loved,
and those who love to be wanted.
When gazing into a mirror,
beauty looks for signs of ugliness,
and ugliness for signs of beauty.
While many hard-working parents grin and bear it,
their hard-partying college kids bare it and grin.
We all know that working out reduces stress,
but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.
While victory is always preferred to defeat,
people learn far more from defeat than from victory.
We can never truly understand people when we hate them,
and we can never truly hate people when we understand them.
I have found it a good rule of thumb to
always question those who advocate,
and always advocate for those who question.
July 2005:
Last week, Lance Armstrong won another Tour de France.
It was a classic case of putting the pedal to the metal
and, even more important, the mettle to the pedal.
Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen,
try listening in the hope that people will talk.
The difference between cowards and heroes is that
heroes face what they fear and
cowards fear what they face.
Many things are the exact reverse of earlier times.
Young men used to be questioned by the pop
before they popped the question.
But they also used to get married first
and have children later,
in contrast to the current arrangement.
Instead of saying that people have addictions,
Isn't it more accurate to say that addictions have people?
The reason great political oratory is dead is because
too many politicians think dead political oratory is great.
People who talk too much say even less
than people who talk too little.
Cemetery: a place where dead people live.
Sailor: a person who is grounded by the sea.
Desert: an ocean of sand.
Mother Teresa once said,
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
She might have added,
"If you love people, you have no time to judge them."
An effective leader commands respect;
an ineffective one only respects a command.
When our friends change
it is not necessary to change our friends.
While many good people are bad managers,
bad people never make good managers.
The best learning occurs during the worst of times,
the worst learning during the best of times.
While many are attracted by the idea of adventure,
there's even more thrill in the adventure of ideas.
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