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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Topic: Humor
Author: Dick Clark
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.
Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before; After deliverance both alike requited, Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.
Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.
Friends are chocolate chips in the cookie of life!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Topic: Experience
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Topic: Existence
Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.
Author: Learned Hand
My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. .
Topic: Body
Author: Jackie Chan
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. -Horace Mann.
Topic: Time
Author: Horace Mann
Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving.
There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us that it doesn't behoove any of us to talk about the rest of us.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
You don't have to blow out anothers candle to make yours shine bright.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Topic: Class
It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Topic: Anger
Author: John Dryden
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just.
Topic: Mercy