If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?
Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
In the morning a man walks with his whole body;
in the evening, only with his legs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Personally, I have fond memories of playing
on slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing river
as a child and hitchhiking in college.
To those who say, "But times are different now,"
I reply that statistically life is much safer now
than in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.
What has changed is our attitudes.
In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swing
or the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -
an excuse for gathering autographs.
Today that broken leg would be a source
of outrage and probably lawsuits.
I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Never give up.
- Anonymous
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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