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I am two fools, I know, for loving and saying so.
Topic: Love
Author: John Donne
This story will never go down.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Topic: Haste
Author: Al Bernstein
When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.
Topic: Cowards
I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes
Author: Lullaby
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,
Topic: Past
If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Topic: Unix
Author: Scott Adams
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
Author: Bob Dylan
Are you showing your Blond?
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep, And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.
Topic: Work
What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
Topic: Eyes
Author: Proverb
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Author: Albert Pike
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Topic: Age
An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paains.
Topic: Sickness
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Author: John Locke
Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers-- "Where?"
Topic: Echo
Author: Lord Byron
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
Topic: War
Author: Alan Watts
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
Author: James Allen
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.