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It's cold, but it's a dry cold!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Topic: Humanity
From the shore.. one looks upward to the sanddune grass.. 10,000 green brushes attempting where they laid to paint the blue sky jade.
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Topic: Universe
Author: Woody Allen
All who have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made, To execute the members of their trade.
Topic: Criticism
Author: John Dryden
And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
Topic: Guidance
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
Topic: Cities
Author: Bible
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Topic: Mediocrity
Author: Chet Atkins
Cunning men deal in generalizations.
Topic: Cunning
But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair.
Topic: Hair
Author: Thomas Hood
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Topic: Books
Author: Albert Camus
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Topic: Love
Why do blacks identify with the Christian religion of their oppressors?
Topic: Absurdity
I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.
Author: Homer
Absence is to love what wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
Topic: Beauty
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
Topic: Freedom
Author: Thomas Paine
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.
Author: James Denney