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He who will not economize will have to agonize.
Topic: Economy
Author: Confucius
Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
Topic: Advice
Author: Benny Hill
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Topic: Advice
Life is an incurable disease.
Topic: Life
Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. -Unknown love quote.
Topic: Love
Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.
Topic: Misery
Author: Kazi Shams
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
Topic: History
Author: Anon
The sun also shines on the wicked.
Topic: Wickedness
Author: Seneca
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven, And all the passengers he bore Were on the new world set ashore, He made it next his chief design To plant and propagate a vine, Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd Far greater number, on dry ground, Of wretched mankind, one by one, Than all the flood before had done.
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.
Author: Wayne Dyer
For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
Topic: Miracles
Author: Nancy Gibbs
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Topic: Passion
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Topic: Providence
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
Topic: Flattery
Author: Syrus
I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
Topic: Advice
Author: Connie Mack
Whom they have injured, they also hate.
Topic: Hate
Author: Seneca
It is the beginning of the end.
Topic: Beginnings
Author: Syrus
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
Topic: Tyranny
Author: Euripides