Recommended quotes
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Attributed on the internet but not found in print prior to an attribution in Aero Digest, Vols. 58–59, 1949, p. 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=q2ofAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Life+is+simple%22+but+we+insist+on+making+it+complicated&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Life+is+simple%22+
Misattributed, Not Chinese
“Life ain't a rehearsal, the camera's always rolling”
"Miss Me", Thank Me Later, Lil Wayne (2010)
2010s
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
As quoted in "The Science of Second-Guessing", The New York Times (12 December 2004)
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996
“The first true love is always the last one.”
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
Context: When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do!
“Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”
“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
“It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
“It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.”
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda