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A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed, takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.
Topic: General Sayings
Author: Unknown
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Rodney Dangerfield
Lanscape shapes culture.
Topic: Land
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Topic: Unworthy
Author: Oscar Wilde
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Charles Augustin Sainte Beauve
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
Topic: Honor
Author: Cicero
I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.
Topic: Deep Thoughts
Author: Jack Handy
I do not waste my time in answering abuse, I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.
Topic: Abuse
Author: Henry Labouchere
Be good and you will be lonely.
Topic: Loneliness
Author: Mark Twain
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Topic: Cause
Author: Julius Caesar
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Jonathan Edwards
The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.
Topic: Royalty
Author: George Herbert
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
Topic: Universe
Author: Arnold Toynbee
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.
Topic: Autumn
Author: John Keats
I said that Sean Hannity took residence up Newt Gingrich's butt from 94 to 98. I got that from British intelligence. It turns out he only took up residence in 95.
Topic: Humor
Author: Al Franken
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Margaret Fairless Barber
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Topic: Hope
Author: Robert G Ingersoll
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Topic: Learning
Author: Alexander Pope
'Tis plate of rare device and jewels Of rich and exquisite form, their values great, And I am something curious, being strange, To have them in sale stowage.
Topic: Jewels
Author: William Shakespeare