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You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
Topic: Worth
Author: John Arbutnoth Fisher
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two.
Topic: Ability
Author: George Herbert
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Topic: Spring
Author: Bible
Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.
Topic: Gold
Author: Samuel Butler
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Topic: Language
Author: Claude Levi Strauss
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Topic: Courage
Author: Winston Churchill
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
Topic: Hollywood
Author: Bette Midler
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Martin Luther
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Topic: Virtue
Author: Confucius
There is no defeat except for those who give up.
Topic: Defeat
Author: Joseph B Wirthlin
And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
Topic: Debt
Author: Thomas Jefferson
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Charles A Jaffe
The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.
Topic: Guilt
Author: Ben Jonson
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live without God's giving it daily bread, then and no sooner shall I believe that my soul, which daily sinneth, can spiritually live without God's forgiving it its trespasses.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Thomas Fuller
Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.
Topic: Sun
Author: David Garrick
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Topic: Medicine
Author: Virginia Woolf