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I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Mortal
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Robert Heinlein
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
Topic: Companionship
Author: The Talmud
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Norman R Augustine
Respect is mutual, if you don't respect others viewpoints, chances are they won't acknowledge yours.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice, had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Topic: Advice
Author: Gene Fowler
Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae, Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]
Topic: Cities
Author: Anonymous
But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
Topic: Talk
Author: Samuel Butler
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Topic: Magic
Author: William Bernbach
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Ed Parker
He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.
Topic: Expectation
Author: William Shakespeare
The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.
Topic: Melancholy
Author: Duck Daffy
The captive birds no longer flew Their cadaverous bodies giving flu and Avian Spongiform Encephalopathy .. Mad Chicken Mad Turkey Mad Bird in Aviano and everywhere daily grew.
Topic: Disease
Author: O Anna Niemus
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: C W Ceran
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
Topic: Absence
Author: Frances Anne Fanny Kemble
No one wants advice only corroboration. The Winter of Our Discontent.
Topic: Advice
Author: John Steinbeck
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca.
Topic: Materialism
Author: Seneca
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Topic: Compliment
Author: Mark Twain
Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.
Topic: Sin
Author: Samuel Butler
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Topic: Class
Author: Arabian Proverb