There are many sayings
heard over the years that can be very interesting and/or funny.
This page is dedicated to sayings and quotes that Maury comes across as he travels
the world and surfs the Web. Some are just for fun. 
Maury's favorite quote: "Luck favors
the prepared mind" Louis Pasteur |
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Saying or Quote |
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"When I die, I want to die like
my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep.
Not screaming like all the passengers in his car." |
Will Rogers |
"If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less of something, tax it." |
Ronald Reagan |
"It's paradoxical that
the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone,
but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. " |
Andy Rooney |
"The older I get, the better I used to be." |
Lee Trevino |
"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened." |
Mark Twain |
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"Don't find fault, find a remedy;
anybody can complain." |
Henry Ford |
"If you can't explain it to a
six year old, you don't understand it yourself." |
Albert Einstein |
"Many people die at twenty five
and aren't buied until they are seventy five." |
Benjamin Franklin |
"Nothing in this world is permanant,
not even our troubles. " |
Buddha |
"For good or for ill, the estate
of the family will most assuredly
predetermine the estate of the rest of the culture." |
Patrick Henry |
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"The truth is like a lion; you
don't have to defend it; it will defend itself." |
St. Augustine |
"All you need is faith, trust and a little pixie dust." |
Peter Pan |
"Do what you can with what you have
where you are." |
Teddy Roosevelt |
"Do everything with a good heart and
expect nothing in return,
and you will never be disappointed." |
Barbara Lowe |
"Maybe if we tell people the brain
is an app, they'll use it." |
Danny Glover |
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"Never memorize something that you
can look up." |
Albert Einstein |
"The secret of change is to focus
all of your energy,
not on fighting the old, but on building the new." |
Socrates |
"And in the end, the love you take,
is equal to the love you make." |
Sir Paul McCartney |
"Sometimes you will never know the
value of a moment until it becomes a memory" |
Dr. Seuss |
"A man who carries a cat by
the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" |
Mark Twain |
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It is not the mountain we conquer
but ourselves. |
Sir Edmund Hillary |
"I feel sorry for the people who don't
drink, because when they
get up in the morning, it's as good as they'll feel all day." |
W. C. Fields |
"I hate it when people confuse education
with intelligence,
you can have a bachelor's degree and still be an idot." |
Elon Musk |
"You have not lived today until you
have done something
for someone who can never repay you." |
John Bunyan |
"It is usually futile to try to talk
facts and analysis to people
who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." |
Thomas Sowell |
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"Never discourage anyone who continually
makes progress no matter how slow." |
Plato |
"Compassion for animals is intimately
connected with goodness of character, and it may
be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." |
Arthur Schopenhauer |
"You don't become a failure until
you're satisfied with being one." |
Chinese proverb |
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that
is not what ships are built for." |
J.A. Shield |
"Tears...are not the mark of weakness,
but of Power.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." |
Washington Irving |
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"To be original you don't have to
be first. You just have to be different and better." |
Adam Grant |
"Teamwork"
Coming together is a Beginning. Keeping together is Progress. Working
together is Success |
Henry Ford |
"Don't go around saying the world
owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first." |
Mark Twain |
"If outside validation is your only
source of nourishment,
you will be hungry for the rest of your life." |
Unknown |
"I dream of a better tomorrow, where
chickens can cross the road and
not be questioned about their motives" |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"There's an old saying that victory
has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan" |
John F. Kennedy |
"Nothing has brought me more peace
and content in life than
simply being a good husband and father" |
Frank Abagnale
"Catch
Me If You Can" |
"Aging is like climbing a mountain.
The higher you get, the more tired you become,
but your view becomes much more extensive." |
Ingmar Bergman |
"Children have never been very good
at listening to their elders,
but they have never failed to imitate them" |
James Baldwin |
Complaining about a problem without
posing a solution is called whining. |
Teddy Roosevelt |
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"Why birding is better than American
politics: on a bird, the right wing and the left wing
work together to lift up the center." |
Kenn Kaufman |
"Think how stupid the average person
is and realise half of them are stupider than that." |
George Carlin |
"Ove 90% of what we worry about never
happens" |
Unknown |
"Always
remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." |
Margaret
Mead |
"The
way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." |
Walt Disney |
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"If you're going through hell, keep
going" |
Winston Churhill |
"Everything you've ever wanted is
on the other side of fear" |
George Addair |
"What lies behind us and what lies
before us are
tiny matters compared to what lies within us." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"Ehhhh, that's good enough." |
Mediocrates |
"He who laughs at himself never runs
out of things to laugh at." |
Epictetus |
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"Any man can make mistakes, but only
an idiot persists in his error." |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
"Sometines people dont want to hear
the truth
because they dont want their illusions destroyed." |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty
is a light in the heart." |
Kahlil Gibran |
"Beware of false knowledge; it is
more dangerous than ignorance." |
George Bernard Shaw |
"A child is your legacy. What better
thing can you do in life than put a
really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place." |
Alexis Stewart |
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"We do not inherit the land from our
ancesters, we borrow it from our children" |
Navajo Proverb |
"I would rather have questions that
can't be answered
than answers which can't be questioned." |
Richard Freyman |
"When people give you feedback, look
for grains of truth
before you dismiss the whole conversation." |
Mellody Hobson |
"Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities." |
Voltaire |
"It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." |
Aristotle |
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Its hard to win an argument with
a smart person, but its damn near
impossible to win an argument with a stupid person. |
Bill Murray |
"You have to accept the fact that
sometimes you are the pigeon,
and sometimes you are the statue." |
Claude Chabol |
"Life isn't fair, but it's still good." |
Ragina Brett |
"Facts do not cease to exist because
they are ignored." |
Aldous Huxley |
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"To abolish mask-wearing laws in some
States while the rest of the Nation keeps theirs
is like designating a peeing section of a swimming pool." |
Neil deGrasse Tyson |
"The problem with the world is that
intelligent people have doubts,
while the stupid ones are full of confidence." |
Charles Bukowski |
"It's the friends we meet along the
way that help us appreciate the journey." |
Unknown |
"He who strikes the first blow admits
he's lost the argument." |
Chines Proverb |
"The world without string is
chaos." From the movie "Mousehunt" |
Rudolf Smuntz |
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"Nothing is impossible. The word itself
says I'm possible!" |
Audrey Hepburn |
"No man is above the law and no man
is below it;
nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it" |
Theodore Roosevelt |
If it fails, admit it frankly and
try another. But above all, try something! |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
"I like the dreams of the future better
than the history of the past" |
Thomas Jefferson |
"Do not think for a minute that because
you are who you are,
you cannot be who you imagine yourself to be?" |
Jedidah Isler |
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"Most members of a cult don't know
they are in one" |
Annoymous |
"Sometimes you don't need words to
make you feel better.
You just need the nearness of your dog." |
Natalie Lloyd |
"Everyone is entitled to their own
opinion, but not their own facts" |
Daniel Moynihan |
"If you are not content today, there
is nothing you can buy this weekend to change that" |
Joshua Becker |
"Objects in the mirror may be closer
than they appear." |
Socrates |
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"We have come to live in a society
based on insults, on lies and on things that just aren't true. It creates an environment
where deranged people feel empowered." |
Colin Powell |
"If the soul is left in darkness,
sins will be committed.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes darkness" |
Victor Hugo Les Miserables |
"It is unreasonable to try to reason
with an unreasonable person." |
Unknown |
"Complex problems cannot be solved
with simple minded solutions" |
Anonymous |
"If you need violence to enforce your
ideas, your ideas are worthless." |
Anonymous |
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"Look for the helpers. There will
always be helpers." |
Mr. Rogers |
"Everyone you will ever meet knows
something you don't." |
Bill Nye |
"Stop whining and find something to
do." |
Violet Crawley |
"The only national emergency is that
our president is an idiot." Said
about Trump |
Ann Coulter Conservative
media pundit |
"Believe in yourself, even when no
one else will." |
Sasquatch |
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"Everyone in life has a purpose, even
if its to serve as a bad example." |
Carroll Bryant |
"No man ever steps in the same river
twice, for it's not
the same river and he's not the same man." |
Heraclitus |
"Some men see things as they are,
and ask why.
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not." |
Robert Kennedy |
"Nothing tastes as good as thin feels" |
Sign above weighing scale |
"A son is a son until he takes a wife,
but a daughter is a daughter for the rest of your life." |
Emily Giffin |
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"When a toxic person can no longer control
you, they will try to control how others see you. The misinformation will feel unfair,
but stay above it, trusting that other people will eventually see the truth, just
like you did." |
Jill Blakeway |
The most damaging phrase in the language
is We've always done it this way. |
Rear Admiral Grace Murray
Hopper |
"Love the earth as you would love
yourself." |
John Denver |
"In the spirit of science, there really
is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.'
Any test that yields valid data is a valid test." |
Adam Savage |
"You can't depend on your eyes when
your imagination is out of focus." |
Mark Twain |
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in
every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. |
Winston Churchill |
Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world |
Margaret Mead |
"I think that hate is a feeling that
can only exist where there is no understanding" |
Tennessee Williams |
"Hatred corrodes the container it's
carried in" |
Alan Simpson |
"If I have seen further, it is by
standing on the shoulders of giants" |
Sir Isaac Newton |
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It takes twenty years to build a
reputation and five minutes to ruin it |
Warren Buffet |
"Change is the law of life. And those
who look only to the past or
present are certain to miss the future." |
John F. Kennedy |
"I was born modest, but it wore off" |
Mark Twain |
"Never regret getting older. It's
a privilege denied many." |
Bernice Madigan |
"Do, or do not, there is no try" |
Yoda Jedi
Master |
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"The Secret to Living Well and Longer
is: eat half, walk double,
laugh triple, and love without measure." |
Tibetan Proverb |
"There is no friend as loyal as a
book." |
Ernest Hemingway |
"May your troubles be less and your
blessings be more
and nothing but happiness comes through your door." |
Irish Blessing |
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot
be bestowed; it must be achieved." |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
" Our greatest glory is not in never
falling, but in rising every time we fall." |
Confucius |
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"Don't be encumbered by history. Go
off and do something wonderful." |
Robert Noyce |
"Anything one man can imagine, other
men can make real." |
Jules Verne |
"The further a society drifts from
the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." |
George Orwell |
"All men have the stars...For some
they are guides,
for others, no more than little lights in the sky." |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
"Nothing that's good works by itself,
just to please you ...
you gotta make the damn thing work." |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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"Everything is either an opportunity
to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing.
You get to choose. " |
Wayne Dryer |
"The purpose of life is a life of
purpose." |
Robert Byrne |
"There are two rules for success: 1)
Never reveal everything you know. " |
Roger H. Lincoln |
"You pluck the chicken one feather
at a time and the people don't really notice." About
how to allow Fascism take over a country |
Benito Mussolini |
"Train people well enough so they can
leave. Treat them well enough so they don't want to." |
Richard Branson |
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"This planet can provide for human
need, but not for human greed." |
Mahatma Ghandi |
"If you remember the 60s, you really
weren't there." |
Charlie Fleischer |
"Once you have tasted flight, you
will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been,
and there you will always long to return." |
Leonardo da Vinci |
"You can't negotiate with a tiger
while your head is in his mouth." |
Winston Churchill |
"However difficult life may seem,
there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up." |
Stephen Hawking |
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"Imagination is more important than
knowledge.
Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world." |
Albert Einstein |
"Some people are like clouds. Once
they disappear it's a brighter day." |
Unknown |
"Selfishness is not living your life
as you wish,
it is asking others to live their lives as you wish." |
Oscar Wilde |
"When you talk, you are only repeating
what you already know,
but if you listen, you may learn something new." |
Dalai Lama |
"Both politicians and diapers need
to be changed often and for the same reason" |
Ronald Reagan |
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"I don't need a staple remover; I
have one on each thumb." |
Harry Hoppe |
"You can't chose your parents, you
can't chose your gender
and you can't chose your president." |
Russian Joke |
"Did you ever get the feeling that
the world is a tuxedo
and you are a pair of brown shoes?" |
George Gobel Seen
on TV with Johnny Carson |
"A person has the right to know the
significance of the work they do." |
Russell Varian |
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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"Luck favors the prepared mind" |
Louis Pasteur |
"In
the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures." |
Frank Gehry |
"Opportunities to find deeper powers
within ourselves
comes when life seems the most challenging" |
Joseph Campbell |
"We are not makers of history; we
are made by history." |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
"Been there done that, don't remember." |
Senior Citizen T-shirt |
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"They know the cost of everything
and the value of nothing."
Said
after a meeting with President Reagan and Interior Secretary James Watt |
Ansel Adams |
"It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see." |
Henry David Thoreau |
Life isn't about waiting for the
storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain. |
Vivian Greene |
"Why do we park on a driveway and
we drive on a parkway?" |
Gallagher |
"Most people work just hard enough
not to get fired and get paid just enough not to quit" |
George Carlin |
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Whoever controls the media, controls
the mind |
Jim Morrison |
"Reunite Gondwanaland" |
Bumper sticker |
"I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography" |
Steven Wright |
"I drink to forget I drink" |
Joe E. Lewis |
"You can't have EVERYTHING ... where
would you put it?" |
Steven Wright |
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"People who wonder if the glass if
half empty or half full miss the point.
The glass is refillable" |
Seen on a T-shirt |
"You know you are 80 years old when
you can remember Pearl Harbor,
but you don't remember what she did." |
Mark Russell |
A good leader takes a little more
than his share of the blame,
a little less than his share of the credit. |
Arnold H. Glasow |
"Whoever is happy will make others
happy too" |
Mark Twain |
"Wood burns faster when you have to
cut and chop it yourself." |
Harrison Ford |
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"America is the only country where
a significant proportion of the population believes
that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked." |
David Letterman |
"No man is a failure who has friends" |
Mark Twain |
"You have to be odd to be number one," |
Dr. Seuss |
"Get your facts first and then you
can distort them as much as you please" |
Mark Twain |
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" |
Yogi Berra |
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"One cannot demand respect, it must
be earned" |
U.S. Navy
Leadership Manual |
"I intend to live forever. So far,
so good." |
Steven Wright |
"I sometimes worry about my short
attention span, but not for very long." |
Herb Cain |
About true love 
"Everybody's looking for what we've found.
Some wait their whole life and it never comes around." From
the song "Once in a Lifetime" |
Keith Urban |
"You can't control what people think
about you,
but you CAN control what you give them to think about." |
Unknown |
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