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Ev'n so, with all submission, I . . . . Send you each year a homely letter, Who may return me much a better.
Topic: Post
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Topic: Shoemaking
Author: Cervantes
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Topic: Heroes
A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.
Topic: Swearing
Author: Alberic
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Topic: Loss
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Topic: Fact
Author: Jean Genet
An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd.
Topic: Imitation
Morale is faith in the man at the top.
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Topic: Eating
Author: Bible
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
Topic: Wives
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Topic: Modesty
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. -Diana Rankin.
Topic: Being
Author: Diana Rankin
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
Topic: Action
Author: Bible
Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year. . . . . The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.
Topic: Spring
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Author: Judy Garland
For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Make like the wind and blow out of here.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Author: Anonymous