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Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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
Author: William Shakespeare
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: W Edwards Deming
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
Author: Paula Poundstone
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
Topic: Poetry
Author: Richard Rosen
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
Author: Bishop Westcott
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.
Topic: Famous Last Words
Author: Thomas Edison
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Topic: Advice
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
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.
Topic: Christianity
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.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Evelyn Underhill
A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
Topic: Decision
Author: Fletcher Knebel
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.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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
Author: Albert Einstein
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
Author: Dorothy Parker
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