That should be Johnson not housing. Didn’t notice autocorrect…
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~ Will Rogers ~
Jack Palance: Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean shit.
Billy Crystal: Yeah, but what’s that one thing?
Jack Palance: That’s what you’ve got to figure out.
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I’ve never heard that before. I like it!
My father used to tell me, “Good musicians can still make mistakes, but they keep on going and cover skillfully.”
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Absolutely. My conductor always says “If you’re going to make a mistake, make it with confidence, and odds are the audience won’t even notice. Playing with hesitation spoils the whole piece.”
“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.” -Richard Feynman
Nitpick: “Life’s what happens to you while you’re making other plans.” (Allen Saunders, in 1957.)
A few more that I’ve appreciated:
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The person who has a right to boast seldom feels the need to. The empty barrel makes the biggest noise.
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People may not remember what you said, and they may not remember what you did, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
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You can’t sling mud without losing ground.
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Of all the manifestations of power, restraint is the most impressive.
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Words unspoken are seldom regretted.
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Perhaps the greatest wisdom is the knowledge of one’s own ignorance. (John Steinbeck)
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In politics and seduction you can get away with almost anything, provided you do it slowly enough. (Colin Fletcher)
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. (Charles Darwin)
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers; You can tell whether he is wise by his questions. (Naguib Mahfouz)
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Knowledge talks. Wisdom listens.
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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. (Bertrand Russell)
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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Take what you can use, and let the rest go by. (Ken Kesey)
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He who laughs, lasts.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Gandhi)
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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead. (Joseph Heller)
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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” - Jean de La Fontaine
Always loved this one.
Another, from Terry Pratchet:
"Give a man a fire, and he’s warm for an hour.
Set a man on fire, and he’s warm for the rest of his life!"