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Anger manages everything badly.
Topic: Anger
Author: Statius
A house is a machine for living in.
Topic: Home
Author: Le Corbusier
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Author: Rob Gilbert
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
Topic: Reason
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
Topic: Cliches
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
Topic: Censorship
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.
Topic: Change
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.
Topic: Speech
The flag of our Union forever!
Topic: Flags
Anger should never be an overnight guest.
Topic: Anger
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Topic: Suffering
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.
Topic: Devil
Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one's tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology, ad majorem gloriam dei. The emphasis is on unselfish. Excepting a small minority of mercenary or sadistic disposition, wars are not fought for personal gain, but out of loyalty and devotion to king, country or cause. Homicide committed for personal reasons is a statistical rarity in all cultures, including our own. Homicide for unselfish reasons, at the risk of one's own life, is the dominant phenomenon of history.
But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the last repeating troublesome, Being urged at a time unreasonable.
Topic: Gossip