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Points to Ponder Quotes

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

– Ambrose Bierce

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back, usually with friends.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

– Benjamin Franklin

Just as you rotate tires so that they wear evenly, so you need to rotate or balance your activities in life. This helps cope with stress.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

– Benjamin Franklin

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

– John Wooden

It’s what you learn AFTER you think you know it all that counts.

It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.

– Warren Buffett

It’s the little things in life that can “eat you alive”: How many people here have ever been bitten by an elephant? How many people here have ever been bitten by a mosquito?

It’s hard to be nostalgic when you can’t remember anything.

It’s hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you’ve earned.

– Fred A. Clark

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

Its easier to make a buck than it is to make a difference.

It’s a heck of a lot easier to throw grenades than to catch them.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

It takes a long time to become young.

– Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

– Edward Dahlberg

It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.

It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

It is the mark of civilized people never to go to bed on the same day that they got up.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

It is not the ship in the water but the water in the ship that sinks it. (I’m not exactly sure what this means or how it can be used but it sounds significant!)

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English – up to 50 words used in correct context – no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

– Antoine Rivarol

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

– Abraham Lincoln

It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work and the other is nostalgia.

– Frank Zappa

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

– Thomas de Quincy

It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem.

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