“If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it’s stupid.”
Albert Einstein, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com
“I am an optimist because I don’t see the point in being anything else.”
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“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
Charlotte Brontë, quoted in Scientific American
“A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is a fool, but a great fool.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in The New York Times
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Ernest Hemingway, quoted in the Gilroy, Calif., Dispatch
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell, quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail
“Always have bail money.”
50 Cent, quoted in The San Diego Union-Tribune
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