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Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.
Topic: Desire
Author: William Shakespeare
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.
Topic: Art and Artists
Author: Percy Wynham Lewis
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Topic: Quiet
Author: Walter Bagehot
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
Topic: Teaching
Author: Robert Burns
Never say "oops" in the operating room.
Topic: Discretion
Author: Dr Leo Troy
As good as a play.
Topic: Acting
Author: Lord Byron
No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.
Topic: Christianity
Author: James Denney
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Topic: Literature
Author: Norman Douglas
I am going to seek the great Perhaps.
Topic: Death Immortality
Author: Francois Rabelais
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.
Topic: Famous Last Words
Author: George Sanders
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.
Topic: Circumstance
Author: Daniel Webster
Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
Topic: Sports
Author: Shelby Metcalf
Among them, but not of them.
Topic: Solitude
Author: Lord Byron
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.
Topic: Inns
Author: Samuel Johnson
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Eric Hoffer
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
Topic: Labor
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
Topic: Animals
Author: Unattributed Author
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. -Jawaharlal Nehru.
Topic: Peace
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru