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Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
Topic: Advice
Author: Fredrich Halm
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
Topic: Deep Thoughts
Author: Jack Handy
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is. - Leigh Hunt ,
Topic: Violets
Author: Leigh Hunt
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: General Douglas Macarthur
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Topic: Faith
Author: Edwin Markham
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Havelock Ellis
Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
Topic: Apparitions
Author: Homer
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Topic: Fame
Author: George Santayana
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Dan Quayle
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
Topic: Eternity
Author: Johann Christoph Von Schiller
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Topic: Basketball
Author: Bobby Knight
a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.
Topic: Slavery
Author: Capel Lofft
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Topic: Liberty
Author: Benjamin Franklin
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Topic: Obedience
Author: Thomas à Kempis
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
Topic: Philosophy
Author: William Wordsworth
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
Topic: Truth
Author: William Blake
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
Topic: Morality
Author: Alan Dershowitz
He's armed without that's innocent within.
Topic: Innocence
Author: Alexander Pope