Sunday, April 14, 2013 – A Good Try
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean. ~ Mark Twain
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~ James M. Barrie
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! ~ H. L. Mencken
All I was doing was trying to get home from work. ~ Rosa Parks
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ~ Mason Cooley
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. ~ Samuel Butler
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~ Gustav Mahler
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ~ Charles Baudelaire
I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around. ~ Elvis Presley
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. ~ Steven Wright
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. ~ Pablo Picasso
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~ Jean Cocteau
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. ~ Samuel Beckett
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. ~ T. S. Eliot
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it. ~ W. C. Fields
We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we’re doing there. ~ Jeff Greenwald
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. ~ Bette Midler
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. ~ E. L. Doctorow
I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. ~ Mae West
Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. ~ Russell Baker
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than “try to be a little kinder.” ~ Aldous Huxley
It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him. ~ Joseph Joubert
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said. ~ Abraham Polonsky
I intend to live forever, or die trying. ~ Groucho Marx
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ~ Toni Morrison
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~ Douglas Adams
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. ~ Thomas A. Edison
Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence. ~ Brian O’Shaughnessy
Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required. ~ Winston Churchill
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