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If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
Topic: Morality
Author: Terry Hands
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Topic: War
Author: Douglas MacArthur
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Topic: Patience
Author: Jean De La Fontaine
Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood; And those that under Araby's soft sun Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.
Topic: Birds Of Paradise
Author: Thomas Moore
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
Topic: Ignorance
Author: Robert Burton
'Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.'
Topic: Movies
Author: Mae West
'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
Topic: Comparisons
Author: Philip James Bailey
The preacher was growing concerned about sparse attendance, so he published this item in the church bulletin: This . . . is . . . the . . . way . . . the . . . church . . . sometimes . . . looks . . . to . . . the . . . preacher . . . when . . . he . . . goes . . . into . . . the . . . pulpit. Itwouldlooklikethisifeverybodybroughtsomebodyelsetochurch.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
To attract men I wear a perfume called "new car interior.".
Topic: Love
Author: Rita Rudner
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Topic: Education
Author: John Dryden
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Dollar Diplomacy.
Topic: Money
Author: Unattributed Author
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Topic: Love
Author: Bible
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Topic: Gold
Author: Alexander Pope
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
Topic: Universe
Author: David Bohm
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Scott M Peck
I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I will step into the pool.
Topic: Rights
Author: William Pitt