#wisdom

"Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent."

"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."

"Love will wreck your heart like a derailed train. So choo-choose your partner wisely."

"Everyone is different from each other, but that doesn’t mean everyone should be indifferent to each other."

"Life, it’s made up of two things—time and love. A watch tells one, but what tells the other? We tell each other."

"Dangerous Food [10w] The world's most fattening foods are the ones you swallow."

"Pulling a Houdini Relationships are magic;we're always getting each other out of handcuffs and strait-jacketswhile locked in a steamer trunk underwater."

"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing."

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

"I [10w] 'I' is a wellspring in the desertoverflowing with life."

"Lost Love [10w] + {Couplet} Lost love's the season of mists,Though they are gone, memory persists."

"Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned."

"If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions."

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

"Optimists vs. Death [10w] Optimists are hopeful people who see a coffin as half-full."

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis."

"Purity of heart is what enables us to see."

"Hemidemisemiquaver [10w] The composer evened the score by ending in a hemidemisemiquaver."

"Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why."