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“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
“Love is what you've been through with somebody.”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
“We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”
“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
“Life is something that everyone should try at least once.”
“The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.”
“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.”
“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.”
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
“In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.”
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
“There is no future for people who deny their past.”
“And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: That he who lives more lives than one, More deaths than one shall die.”
“If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.”
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”
“Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth”
“The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
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