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Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood; And those that under Araby's soft sun Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.
Author: Thomas Moore
If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.
Topic: Applause
Hurry dog eats raw meat.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The beasts had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.
Topic: Suicide
Author: John Bright
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
Topic: Learning
Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse, And on my middle fingernails To run my earthly course! . . . . I'm going to have a flowing tail! I'm going to have a mane! I'm going to stand fourteen hands high On the Psychozoic plain!"
Topic: Evolution
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Topic: Teamwork
Author: Unknown
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Topic: Chastity
Author: Thomas Moore
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
Topic: Goodness
Author: Cicero
People are funny. They want the front of the bus, middle of the road, and the back of the church.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Topic: Perception
Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Topic: Advice
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Author: Confucius
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.
Topic: Satire
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
Author: Tom Hopkins
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Topic: Hunger
Author: Cervantes
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
Topic: Plagiarism
Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After crashing, he asked a crew member to retrieve his bloodied and severed arm so he could remove from its wrist the gold watch his father had given him.
Topic: Peace