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He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him.
Topic: Last Words
Author: Epitaph
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. thanks to Alan Bennett -H. L. Mencken.
Topic: Heart Quotes
Author: H L Mencken
Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.
Topic: Reincarnation
Author: Gail Parent
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Thomas Fuller
When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.
Topic: Thrushes
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Topic: Labor
Author: Robert Collyer
Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house, Boding to all!--He had my handkerchief.
Topic: Ravens
Author: William Shakespeare
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: George Herbert
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Topic: Destiny
Author: Yiddish Proverb
Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752 If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Thomas À Kempis
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Hubert Humhrey
Beginning a Lenten series on prayer: If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Owen
We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
Topic: Wonders
Author: Edward Young
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
Topic: History
Author: Adlai E Stevenson
Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
Topic: Death
Author: Unattributed Author
For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
Topic: Judgment
Author: Seneca
Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Topic: Quotes
Author: Ambrose Bierce