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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Ernest Rutherford
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Topic: Hate
Author: Sir Walter Ralegh
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Topic: Heroism
Author: Kitty Kelley
Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror. -The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew, For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail, We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.
Topic: Ships
Author: Rudyard Kipling
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Topic: Gossip
Author: Jane Austen
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waitingto be born.
Topic: Dreams
Author: Dale Turner
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Topic: Sports
Author: Shaquille Oneal
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
Topic: Society
Author: John Morley
To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.
Topic: Melancholy
Author: Bodenstedt
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us.
Topic: Adversity
Author: Duc De La Rochefoucauld
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess. -Nicholas Chamford .
Topic: Heart quotes
Author: Nicholas Chamford
What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
Topic: Worship
Author: Bishop Reginald Heber
Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.
Topic: Snow
Author: William Shakespeare
Concluding a short series on education: The devout student is the best of all students. There are too many who are devout, but not students. They will not accept the discipline of study and of learning, and they even look with suspicion upon the further knowledge which study brings to men. There are equally too many who are students, but not devout. They are interested too much in intellectual knowledge, and too little in the life of prayer and in the life of service of their fellow men. A man would do well to aim at being not only a student, and not only devout, but at being a devout student.
Topic: Christianity
Author: William Barclay
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate, His tears pure messengers sent from his heart, His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
Topic: Fraud
Author: William Shakespeare
Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer; Stolen looks are nice in chapels: Stolen, stolen be your apples.
Topic: Thieving
Author: Thomas Randolph