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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.
Author: Unknown
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
Lanscape shapes culture.
Topic: Land
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.
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.
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
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
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.
Topic: Royalty
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
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
Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise.
Topic: Advice
Author: Anonymous
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.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Topic: Hope
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Topic: Learning
'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