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The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Topic: Bureaucracy
Author: Mary McCarthy
I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Cao Xueqin
A DEEP SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep sworn vow have been friends of mine, Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
Topic: Absence
Author: William Butler Yeats
Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field in accordance with these rules, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires.
Topic: Books First Lines
Author: Unattributed Author
In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Shelly Winters
A note left for a pianist from his wife: "Gone Chopin, have Liszt, Bach in a Minuet.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
Topic: Lovers
Author: Aphra Behn
The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
Topic: Affliction
Author: Charles Hadden Spurgeon
-2 Watch.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without.
Topic: Relationships
Author: Anonymous
'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.
Topic: Friends
Author: Thomas Campbell
...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
Topic: Zombies
Author: Ayn Rand
O my prophetic soul! My uncle?
Topic: Prophecy
Author: William Shakespeare
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Topic: Change
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Topic: Books
Author: Harper Lee
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Topic: Media and Entertainment
Author: Cary Grant
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Topic: Virtue
Author: William Shakespeare
Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.
Topic: Trials
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning