“Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.” — Seneca
“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.” — P. D. James
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.” — George Jean Nathan
“The suspense is terrible… I hope it’ll last.” — Gene Wilder
“Wisdom is not what you know but how quickly you adjust when the opposite proves true.” — Robert Brault
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.” — Lily Tomlin
“You only have to bat 1.000 in two things—flying and heart transplants; everything else, you can go four in five.” — Beano Cook
“Some of the most well-trodden roads lead nowhere.” — Proverb
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” — Albert Einstein
“We’re all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.” — Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
“Why is it that when anything goes without saying, it never does?” — Marcelene Cox
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” — Elvis Presley
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.” — James Joyce
“I don’t like to call it revenge…returning the favor sounds nicer.” — Unknown
“If you want to stand for something, you can’t stand for everything.” — Unknown
“Be careful to leave your children well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. [ed]” — Epictetus
“The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.” — Baltasar Gracián
“To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.” — Mark Twain
“When you rest, you rust.” — Oscar de la Renta
“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well.” — Oliver Herford
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.” — Robert Frost
“Intelligence is like four-wheel drive; it only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.” — Garrison Keillor
“Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.” — Aesop
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a lifetime’s experience.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Why would they have book covers if we aren’t supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.” — Ingrid Weir
“How soon not now, becomes never.” — Martin Luther
“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.” — Pablo Neruda
“What people believe prevails over the truth.” — Sophocles
“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.” — H.L. Mencken
I found this video to be entertaining and engaging which is quite something for an advertisement. I am sure that some may deem it a bit hokey, but if viewed in light of the season, I think you will find it cute, humorous or poignant depending upon your mood at the time or your general disposition.
I watched it and thought of a couple of subtexts:
And I am sure this list goes on. If you can think of a witty, poignant or thought-provoking subtext, why not add it in the comment section?
“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.” — Bette Davis
“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.” — Stanislaw Lec
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” — Agnes de Mille
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” — Doug Larson