Quotes

In this part, we take well known groups of words and change them to words of but one part. The words as they were spake are in blue.

On the Internet, no one knows the horse is dead.

On the web, no one knows the horse is dead.

Lizard

Regard your neighbors gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.

Think of a gain for those who live near you as a gain of your own and of their loss as a loss of your own.

T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien

I got a simple rule. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

I got a plain rule. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong

What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the sum of the Law; all the rest is commentary.

What you hate do not do. That is the sum of the Law; all the rest is fluff.

Talmud, Shabbath 31a

Not one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.

Not one of you has seen the truth 'til he wants for all men that which he wants.

Muhammed (Oral Tradition)

Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find harmful.

Hurt no one in ways that you know would hurt were then done to you.

Udanavarga 5:18 (Buddhist Religious text)

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

The past is a base to build on, not a bed to sleep on.

Unknown

I don't hate my enemies... after all, I made them.

I don't hate my foes... I am the one who made them thus.

Red Skelton

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see everyday, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

To leave the crowd and its ways, to do things your friends might not like though you know they are right may be the act which most marks one as a great man.

Theodore H. White

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but a man's failures.

I turn to the sports page first, which tells of things Man has done well. The front page lists things which have not worked out.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

One wrecked meal is a small price to pay to show a youth you trust him.

One wrecked meal is a small price to pay to show a youth you trust him.

Big Bro

A friend will help you move a house. A best friend will help you move a body.

A friend will help you move a house. A best friend will help you move a corpse.

Alexi Sayle

You'll miss 100 percent of all shots you don't take.

You'll miss all the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzsky

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life.
It goes on.

In three words I can sum up all that I've learned of life.
It goes on.

Robert Frost

Good friends are good for your health.

Good friends are good for your health.

Irwin Sarason

Wealth is something you acquire so you can share it, not keep it.

Wealth is a thing you get so you can share it, not keep it.

LaDonna Harris

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.

The way in which it is made is worth more than the gift.

Pierre Corneille

The worst day of being alive is much better than the best day of being dead.

The worst day of your life will still beat the best day of your death.

Dennis Miller

We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.

We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.

Jonathan Westover

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Small minds are tamed and give up when things do not go well, but great minds rise to meet these foes.

Washington Irving

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Lots of true words are said in jest.

English Proverb

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Miguel de Cervantes