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L'Abbe de Ville proposed a toast, His master, as the rising Sun: Reisbach then gave the Empress Queen, As the bright moon and much praise won. The Earl of Stair, whose turn next came, Gave for his toast his own King Will, As Joshua the sun of Nun, Who made both Sun and Moon stand still.
Topic: Toasts
Author: Lord Stair
A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: F A Hayek
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
Topic: The sexes
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Topic: Dress
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Topic: Mediocrity
Author: William M Winans
To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Hubbard Davis
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Topic: Fight
Author: Gilbert K Chesterton
And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Topic: Eating
Author: Bible
An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.
Topic: Skepticism
Author: Virginia Hutchinson
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Topic: Myth
Author: Walter Bagehot
A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
Topic: Discretion
Author: Thomas Hardy
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Topic: Unhappiness
Author: Groucho Marx
Come, our stomachs Will make what's homely savory.
Topic: Hunger
Author: William Shakespeare
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Topic: Relationships
Author: Iris Murdoch
The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
Topic: Contention
Author: Seneca
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Alexander Haig
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Topic: Dreams
Author: Henry David Thoreau