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Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.  --Gautama Siddhartha (566?-480B.C.)

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.  --Carl Van Doren (1885-1950)

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they're here to stay, oh I believe in yesterday.   --Paul McCartney (1942-) "The Beatles": Yesterday

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift.  --(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Yet the earth does move.  --Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

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You are never too old to learn.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.  --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.   --Don Felder/Don Henley/Glenn Frey "Eagles": Hotel California

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.  --Henry Ford (1863-1947)

You can go your own way, you can call it another lonely day.  --Lindsey Buckingham "Fleetwood Mac": Go Your Own Way

You can kick the football when it is difficult to do; but when it seems easy are you not sure to miss it?  --Yoshida Kenkô (1283?-1352?): Tsure-zure Gusa  Section 109

You can laugh now and cry later or cry now and laugh later.  (--contributed by Yu Cocohore111)

You can live a lie until you die. One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.  --John Lennon (1940-80): Crippled Inside

You can never be too sure.

You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.

You can reach the top of any mountain if you walk step by step. You don't have to walk fast; you only have to keep walking. There's no shortcut, no giving up.  --Tabei Junko (1939-)

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.  --Naguib Mahfouz (1911-)

You cannot burn the candle at both ends.

You cannot do much about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about its depth and width.

You cannot eat your cake and have it (too).

You cannot have your cake and eat it (too).

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.  --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [Ulyanov] (1870-1924)

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.  --Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)  

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.  --Henry Ford (1863-1947)

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.  --Booker T(aliaferro) Washington (1856-1915)

You can't learn to swim by reading books about it.

You can't take it with you.

You can't unscramble eggs.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.  --Joan Baez (1941-): Daybreak

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.  --Ken Kesey (1935-)

You fish fair and catch a frog.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  --(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

You got to live; you got to love; you got to be somebody; you got to shove. But it's so hard, it's really hard. Sometimes I feel like going down.  --John Lennon (1940-80): It's So Hard

You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors, so that you may be sons of your heavenly Father; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and the good, and pours rain upon the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors as much? And if you greet only your kin, how does your conduct excel? Do not even the pagans do the same?  --Bible: Matthew  Chapter 5:43-47

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.  --Charlie [Sir Charles Spencer] Chaplin (1889-1977)

You have to know what you want to get.  --Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

You have to learn to walk before you run.

You have two ears and one mouth. You should listen twice as much as you talk.

"You know, there are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If only one out of a million of those had planets, and if just one out of a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there." "Well, if there wasn't, it'd be an awful waste of SPACE."  --AUTHOR/ Carl (Edward) Sagan (1934-96), DIRECTOR/ Robert Zemeckis (1952-): Contact  (It is a movie dialogue between Dr. Eleanor [Ellie] Arroway, portrayed by Jodie Foster, and Palmer Joss by Matthew McConaughey.)

You may be wrong but you may be right.  --Billy Joel (1949-): You may be Right

You may take a horse to the water, but (you) can't make him drink.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.  --Indira Gandhi (1917-84)

You never know what you can do till you try.

You see things; and say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and say ‘Why not?’  --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

You shape your own destiny.  --Chet [Chester] Atkins (1924-)

You should be a king of your word.

You sometimes have to use (the) carrot and (the) stick to motivate someone.  --Take Moon OK (1963-)

You'll never know unless you try.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.... Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.  --Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

You're not the only one with mixed emotions, you're not the only ship adrift on this ocean.  --Mick Jagger (1943-)/ Keith Richards (1943-) "The Rolling Stones": Mixed Emotions

You're only young once.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.  --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82): Hyperion

Youth condemns; maturity condones.  --Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Youth will be served.

Youth's a stuff will not endure.  --William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night  II. iii. 55

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.  --[Edward Kennedy] Duke Ellington (1899-1974)