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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.
Topic: Money
Infinite riches in a little room.
Topic: Wealth
For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
Topic: Land
Author: Claude Brown
And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Topic: Soldiers
Author: Bible
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Topic: Religion
Author: Edmund Burke
Bless God, America.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
Topic: Enemy
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Topic: Ability
Author: Edmund Burke
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Topic: Smile
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Topic: Greatness
The biggest liar you'll ever have to deal with probably watches you shave his face in the mirror every morning.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Topic: Cynicism
Author: Fannie Hurst
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Topic: Word
Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. •Kingman Brewster, Jr. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. •Abraham Lincoln Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. •Gilda Radner Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Topic: Ambiguity
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
Topic: World
Author: Robert Burns
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
Topic: Relativity
To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
Topic: Truth
Don't be irreplaceable -- if you can't be replaced, you won't be promoted.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
Topic: Debt