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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Topic: Existence
Author: Euripides
Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.
Topic: Cows
Author: Anne Taylor
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
Topic: Blame
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Topic: Scandal
Author: Paul Chatfield
Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
Topic: Silence
Author: Edward George Earle
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
Topic: Mystery
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
When in doubt, don't.
Topic: Advice
Author: Saul W Gellerman
For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Topic: Possession
Author: Robert Lee Frost
Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Anonymous
Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.
Topic: The sexes
Author: Source Unknown
It's fun being a kid.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Bradford Arthur Angier
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Topic: Perspective
Author: Grace Kelly
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
Topic: Traveling
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
It is in vain, 0 men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight only leads you to the knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you will discover the true and the good. The philosophers promised them to you, and have not been able to keep their promises... Your principal maladies are pride, which cuts you off from God, and sensuality, which binds you to the earth; and they have done nothing but foster at least one of these maladies. If they have given you God for your object, it has only been to pander to your pride; they have made you think that you were like Him and resembled Him by your nature. And those who have grasped the vanity of such a pretension have cast you down into the other abyss by making you believe that your nature was like that of the beasts of the field, and have led you to seek your good in lust, which is the lot of animals.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Blaise Pascal
He who hates vice hates men.
Topic: Vices
Author: John Morley
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
Topic: Blame
Author: John C Maxwell
The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
Topic: Existence
Author: Roger Birkman
ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly . The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.
Topic: Zoology
Author: Ambrose Bierce
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: William M Holden