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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Topic: Marriage
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Author: Carl Jung
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
Topic: Youth
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
Author: Cervantes
Fortune favours the bold.
Topic: Boldness
Author: Virgil
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Topic: Curiosity
Author: Mark Twain
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
Topic: Help
Author: Cervantes
An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
Topic: Miracles
Author: A P Herbert
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
What more would you have? He has invented history.
Topic: History
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.
Commenting on LaVell Edwards' contribution to college football: He may not be at the head of the class, but whatever class he is in it doesn't take long to call the roll.
Topic: Football
Author: Bum Phillips
God is with those who persevere.
Author: Koran
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Topic: University
Author: W H Auden
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
Topic: Tragedy
Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, crippled prayers that are hidden in the minor blasphemies of people for whom in every sense God is dead, except that they still have to speak to him, if only through clenched teeth.
Life is so unlike theory.
Topic: Theory
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid , Be worse provided than a common archer?
Topic: Prudence