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if you lie down with dogs, you rise up with fleas.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Topic: Chastity
Author: Thomas Moore
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Author: Carl Jung
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Topic: Majority
Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure? - The Face of Violence.
Author: J Bronowski
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Topic: Movies
Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers-- She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly Dipping into the flowers of my heart.
Unhappy France! Unhappy King!
Topic: Royalty
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Author: St Augustine
more confused than a woodpecker in a concrete forest.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Topic: Yield
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Topic: Want
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
Topic: Sweetness
Author: Charles Lamb
didn't even say hello, drop dead.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Even if I'm not asleep, that doesn't mean I'm awake.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Topic: Love
Author: Henry Miller
Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
Topic: Disgrace
Author: Dante
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.
Topic: Leadership
Author: Lao Tzu