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On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
Topic: Affliction
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Topic: Ships
Author: Lord Byron
Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.
Topic: Society
Author: Woody Allen
The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind; Freedom from passion and from care, If they the Pearl will wear.
Topic: Pearls
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
Topic: Nature
The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.
Topic: Timidity
Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring.
Topic: Learning
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Author: Richard Bach
All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.
Topic: Revenge
Author: Phaedrus
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.
Topic: Courage
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Author: Dean Inge
Don't let people drive you crazy when it is within walking distance.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.
Topic: Ivy
Author: John Milton
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Topic: Truth
There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Topic: Friendship