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May you find great value in these wise quotes about Whimsey.
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile;
giggle your laugh;
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be Utterly and Dependably Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
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)
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
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're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
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