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A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
by John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats

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Thing Quotes and Sayings

Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain

The 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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein

It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek

Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin

Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous

A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill

We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain

All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

The cost of a thing is the amount
of what I will call life
which is required to be exchanged for it,
immediately or in the long run.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something
and that this thing must be attained.
- Marie Curie

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

It is useless for us to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he has never been reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

The only thing worse than a bad day is no day at all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi

Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie