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1. "You may delay, but Time will not."

Benjamin Franklin

categories: Time and Passing


2. "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."

Abraham Lincoln

categories: Truth and Falsity


3. "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Mary Pickford

categories: Defeates and Mistakes


4. "You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."

Mahatma Gandhi

categories: Various


5. "You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

categories: Various


6. "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Mahatma Gandhi

categories: Human -:- Good and Evil


7. "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."

Jim Rohn

categories: Human -:- Various


8. "You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

Pablo Picasso

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Question and Problem


9. "You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have."

Anon.

categories: Power and Weakness



10. "You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Power and Weakness


11. "You should be the change that you want to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

categories: Various


12. "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity


13. "You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."

John Kenneth Galbraith

categories: Authority, Government


14. "You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

Joseph Joubert

categories: Art and Culture


15. "You work hard to be good and then to be great, but when you're great, you don't just want to be good."

Pat Bradley

categories: Success and Fame -:- Work and Laziness


16. "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."

Dean Martin

categories: Health and Alcohol


17. "You're not rich because you have money, but because you spend it."

Sacha Guitry

categories: Richness and Money


18. "Young children step on your feet, older children step on your heart."

proverb

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Various


19. "Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."

Rabindranath Tagore

categories: God and Religion


20. "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

Albert Einstein

categories: Reality and Imagination



21. "Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine."

Louis Aragon

categories: Reality and Imagination


22. "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

H. G. Bohn

categories: Normality and Madness -:- Science and Technology


23. "Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends."

Mason Cooley

categories: Egoism


24. "Your waistline is your lifeline."

Jack LaLanne

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Various


25. "Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Revolt of the Masses"

categories: Youth and Age


26. "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby"

categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Youth and Age


27. "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."

Herbert Asquith

categories: Youth and Age


28. "Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. "

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

categories: Various


29. "Zsa Zsa Gabor is an expert housekeeper. Every time she gets divorced, she keeps the house."

Henny Youngman

categories: Marriage -:- Richness and Money


30. "[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

categories: Science and Technology


31. "[...] only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

categories: Bravery and Fear



32. "[...] parables are unnecessary for recognizing the blatant absurdity of everyday life. Reality is lesson enough."

Jane O`Reilly, "The Girl I Left Behind"

categories: Life and Death -:- Reality and Imagination


33. "[...] so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. "

Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth"

categories: Various -:- Question and Problem


34. "[...] we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation."

Martin Luther King

categories: Justice


35. "[Hypothesis] Something murdered by facts."

Anon.

categories: Science and Technology -:- Question and Problem


36. "[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form."

Evan Esar, "Esar's Comic Dictionary"

categories: Science and Technology -:- Reality and Imagination


37. "[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics."

Evan Esar, "Esar's Comic Dictionary"

categories: Science and Technology

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