“Some people have a way with words, others not have way.”
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When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet.
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Chinese proverb
Never before have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church?
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Black Adder II
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
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Chinese proverb
“A mind is a terrible thing to … Oooh! Just a sec, more e-mail.”
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Everyone must row with the oars he has.
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English proverb
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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Latin proverb
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
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Japanese proverb
SPIKE: Where have you been pet?
DRUSILLA: I went for a walk. I met an old man. I didn’t like him, he got stuck in my teeth.(Other Authors and Sources)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
BUFFY: Do you remember that demon that almost got out the night I died?
WILLOW: Every nightmare I have that doesn’t revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.(Other Authors and Sources)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
FAITH: When I’m fighting, it’s like the whole world goes away. I only know one thing: that I’m gonna win, and they’re gonna lose. I like that feeling.
BUFFY: Well sure, beats that “dead” feeling you get when they win and you lose.(Other Authors and Sources)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Believing oneself to be perfect is often a sign of delusional mind.
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Lt. Cmdr. Data
WILLOW: Well, we try not to get killed. That’s part of our whole mission statement: ‘Don’t get killed.’
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Anne”
BUFFY: So, Giles, got anything that can make this day any worse?
GILES: How about the end of the world?
BUFFY: Knew I could count on you.(Other Authors and Sources)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
XANDER: I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
BUFFY: Vampires are creeps.
GILES: Yes. That’s why one slays them.(Other Authors and Sources)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
CORDELIA: So does looking at guns make you wanna have sex?
XANDER: I’m 17. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex.(Other Authors and Sources)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
MAYOR: I have two words that are going to make all your troubles go away. “Miniature.” “Golf.”
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
MR. MATSUNAGA: Mr. President.
MR. ROBERT C. BYRD: I see my good and dear and true friend from Hawaii, a man who wears a perpetual smile —
MR. JESSE HELMS: And who is also generous.
MR. ROBERT C. BYRD: Not only generous, but also a gentleman. A man who is clean on the inside, a man who is clean on the outside, a man who neither looks up to the rich nor down on the poor, a man whose compassionate heart goes out to the young, the old, the maimed; a man who is too honest to cheat and too honorable to lie: that man is a gentleman. I speak of none other than my friend from Hawaii.
MR. JESSE HELMS: Mr. President, I say if that does not gain for the majority leader a case of fine pineapple, nothing will.(Other Authors and Sources)
Congressional Record (9 Feb 1979)
Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
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Blore’s Razor
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
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The Wizard of Oz, TV listing in a Marin, Calif. newspaper
If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One —
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds.(Other Authors and Sources)
Bhagavad Gita ch. 11, sec. 12, 32 (500? BC)
Above cited as translation recalled by J. Robert Openheimer during first A-bomb test (16 May 1945) (Current Biography Yearbook, 1964) Swami Nikhilananda (1944) translated as: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One. I am mighty, world-destroying Time …"
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.Sig Lines
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The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.Sig Lines
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The ink of a scholar is just as holy as the blood of a martyr.
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Islamic proverb
You have been told, O mortal, what is good,
And what God requires of you:
Only to do justice
And to love goodness,
And to walk modestly with your God.The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Micah 6:8 [RJPS (2023 ed.)]
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Alternate translations:
He hath shewed thee, O man what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
[KJV (1611)]
What is good has been explained to you, man; this is what Yahweh asks of you: only this, to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God.
[JB (1966)]
No, the Lord has told us what is good. What he requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God.
[GNT (1976)]
You have already been told what is right and what Yahweh wants of you. Only this, to do what is right, to love loyalty and to walk humbly with your God.
[NJB (1985)]
He has told you, human one, what is good and
what the Lord requires from you:
to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God.
[CEB (2011)]
He has told you, O mortal, what is good,
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
and to walk humbly with your God?
[NRSV (2021 ed.)]
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
[NIV (2011 ed.)]
A man asked Hakuin, a Zen master, “What happens after we die?”
The master replied, “I don’t know.”
“What do you mean? You’re a Zen master, aren’t you?”
“I am,” came the reply, “but not a dead one.”(Other Authors and Sources)
Zen koan
If you took all the fools out of the Legislature, it wouldn’t be a representative body anymore.
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Texas State Senator Carl Parker
When the Egyptians were drowning in the Red Sea, the angels in heaven began to break forth in songs of jubilation, but the Holy One, blessed be He, silenced them: “My creatures are perishing — and ye are ready to sing!”
The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
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In Louis I. Newman, comp. The Talmudic Anthology, 103 (1945): "When the Egyptians were drowning, the angels wished to sing. But God said, 'My children are dying, and you would sing?'"
The Divine Spirit does not reside in any except the joyful heart.
The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
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Who are you to judge the servant of someone else? It is his own Master who will decide whether he succeeds or fails.
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Romans 14:3-4
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 15:11
Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 6:34 (KJV)
- NIV: Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own
- NRSV: So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
- TEV: So do not worry about tomorrow; it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings.
- Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
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Japanese proverb
In horse vernacular, Roy has always “given me my head,” and I have tried to do the same for him.
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Dale Evans, wife of cowboy star Roy Rogers
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
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Zimbabwe proverb
Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
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Yiddish proverb
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
John 8:7
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
1 Corinthians 12:4-6 [NIV (2011 ed.)]
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Alternate translations:
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
[KJV (1611)]
There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit; there are all sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord; working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is the same God who is working in all of them.
[Jerusalem (1966)]
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served. There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.
[GNT (1976)]
Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit, and there are varieties of services but the same Lord, and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.
[NRSV (1989)]
Let the gods avenge themselves.
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Roman legal maxim regarding blasphemy
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
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Serbian proverb
It’s no disgrace to be poor, but it’s no honor, either.
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Yiddish proverb
One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.
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Spanish proverb
When we talk of tomorrow, the gods laugh.
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Chinese proverb
We cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over our heads, but we can refuse to let them build their nests in our hair.
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Chinese proverb
Lending to a spendthrift is like pelting a trespassing dog with meat dumplings.
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Chinese proverb
“If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees.”
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“It was all so different before everything changed.”
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“The First Rule of Holes: If you are in one, stop digging.”
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“All reports are in. Life is now officially unfair.”
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Learn to obey before you command.
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Latin proverb
MARY: I’m an experienced woman. I’ve been around. Well, all right, I might not’ve been around, but I’ve been … nearby.
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Mary Tyler Moore Show
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
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Hebrew proverb
“43.3% of all statistics are meaningless!”
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Never look at the trombones. You’ll only encourage them.
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Robert Strauss, on conducting