Stupid is as stupid does. ...
by Forrest

Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)

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If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein

I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel

Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill

People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

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

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie