I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure -- hooking up with fat, hairy girls. Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. While we are postponing, life speeds by. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. Hatch a dream and then believe it. Don't be so humble - you are not that great. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed. .. But in the year of the Shadow war it became something greater: our last, best hope .. for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5.24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a ... brain operation. The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. Dancing is silent poetry. The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. Logic is in the eye of the logician.I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. Everything has been figured out, except how to live. No one can earn a million dollars honestly. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines. There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. You can widen your life by yourself, but to deepen it you need a friend. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. A clever man commits no minor blunders. A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed. .. But in the year of the Shadow war it became something greater: our last, best hope .. for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5.Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. I'll moider da bum. The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a shp, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. A clever man commits no minor blunders. Love is the beauty of the soul. Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Don't be so humble - you are not that great. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. No elected body is the country, we are the country. You and me. Us. It can only stay that way as long as we care to keep it so. Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you. Not because they are nice, but because you are.
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