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Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Now you know the rest of the story.
I just get up again when I fall down.
If you don't live it, you don't believe it.
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Self Government won't work without self discipline.
Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Growth is the process of responding positively to change.
Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.
The only ones to get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.
The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.
Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.
When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.
Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.
We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.
You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.
Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back.
Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)
Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.
A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.
Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.
For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.
Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.
Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.
Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.
If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?
Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.
But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
