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Quotable Quotes

1. They say that blood thicker than water. Do you agree? (David Assael)

I never really understood where this came from. Blood is, of course, factually thicker than water. As for the metaphorical sense...well, yes, sometimes. I dunno. Most days I'd say yes. Some days I'd say no.

2. Is everything funny as long as it happens to somebody else? (Will Rogers)

I'd change it a little to "everything's funny unless you can imagine it happening to yourself"--even then, if it's not too bad, it's still pretty funny sometimes.

3. Does the lack of willpower cause more failure than the lack of intelligence or ability? (Flower A. Newhouse)

Yep. No argument there.

4. Do you agree that the wise learn by others’ mistakes, and that you are a fool if you learn by your own? (Henry George Bohn)

Depends how many times you have to learn the same lesson yourself. Some people learn by doing; some learn by watching.

5. When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, can we really find hope in the thought that things are so bad that they have to get better? (Malcolm Forbes)

As an optimist, yes, I agree with that. Otherwise, I'd've killed myself a dozen times over.