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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.
Author: H L Mencken
Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.
Author: Gail Parent
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.
Topic: Thrushes
Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Topic: Labor
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
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Topic: Destiny
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.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
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.
Author: John Owen
We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
Topic: Wonders
Author: Edward Young
Light is the task when many share the toil.
Topic: Work
Author: Homer
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
Topic: History
Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
Topic: Death
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
Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth.
Topic: Inflation
Author: Anon