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Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.
For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide; One raised in blood and one in blood established; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughtered those that were the means to help him; A base foul stone, made precious by the foil Of England's chair, where he is falsely set; One that hath ever been God's enemy.
Topic: Tyranny
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Topic: Love
Author: Ovid
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.
Topic: Cliches
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
Topic: Poetry
Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.
Topic: Fame
Author: Lord Byron
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Topic: Cowards
Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!
Topic: Yawns
Author: Bette Midler
Oh my, it's very beautiful over there.
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Topic: Advice
Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to bear of being born of God.
Author: John Owen
Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost.
A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
Topic: Decision
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Topic: Opposition
Author: George Eliot
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
Topic: World
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. Jesse Jackson -Mario Cuomo.
Topic: Parenting
Author: Mario Cuomo
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
Topic: Tragedy
Wife: "There's trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor." Husband: "Water in the carburetor? That's ridiculous." Wife: "I tell you the car has water in the carburetor." Husband: "You don't even know what a carburetor is. I'll check it out. Where's the car?"Wife: "In the pool.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown