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Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Rene Dubos
... And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well..
Topic: Zombies
Author: George Carlin
I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim, Man's noblest works must have one common end, And nothing crown the tablet of his name.
Topic: Work
Author: Thomas Moore
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Topic: Education
Author: Thomas Carlyle
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
Topic: Guilt
Author: Charles James Fox
Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Topic: Books
Author: Charles De Secondat
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Topic: Laughter
Author: Mark Twain
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
Topic: Eating
Author: William Shakespeare
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Topic: Quotes
Author: Orson Welles
A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.
Topic: Apparel
Author: Bible
Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought? Whose household words are songs in many keys, Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Topic: Birds
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.
Topic: December
Author: John Keats
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.
Topic: Anger
Author: Bible
The lie is a condition of life.
Topic: Lying
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Topic: Friends
Author: Bible
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Topic: Destiny
Author: Joseph Addison
We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.
Topic: Deeds
Author: Bidpai
... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".
Topic: Democracy
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear.... if you do not feel the jolt in your soul every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you're not really in love at all....
Topic: Kisses
Author: C J Franks