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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Oh, Shrek. Don't worry.
Things just seem bad because it's dark and rainy
and Fiona's father hired a sleazy hitman to whack you.
- the movie Shrek 2
It doesn't matter who my father was.
It matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother
rather than all major credit cards.
- Robert Orben
Confused Memories of Childhood:
Hate to my father, cruel hate,
confused with love - a mix not great.
The man I love - the man I hate;
the man I want to emulate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
The child in me could not die as it should have died,
because according too legends it must find its father again.
The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence
the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized,
and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human,
as man who created a child and then, by his absence,
left the child fatherless and then Godless.
- Anais Nin
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Better late than never.
- Proverb
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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