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Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
Topic: Criticism
I once saw this sign on a diner wall: "I have an agreement with the bank: they don't fry hamburgers, and I don't cash checks.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
Topic: Advice
Author: Euripides
What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
Topic: Home
Author: Agnes Meyer
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Topic: Advice
Author: Unknown
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.
Topic: Sports
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
Topic: Treason
Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.
Topic: Islands
A little child in church for the first time watched as the ushers passed the offering plates.When they neared the pew where he sat, the youngster piped up so that everyone could hear; "Don't pay for me Daddy, I'm under five.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
A wife is your life, you married her couse your white.
Topic: Wife
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
Topic: Tenderness
Author: George Eliot
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!
Topic: Cards
Author: Charles Lamb
Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".
Topic: Law
Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
Topic: Dogs
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Topic: Manners
Author: Cicero
Oh those little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet use. Oh, the price were high That those shoes would buy, Those little blue unused shoes!
Topic: Babyhood
The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.
Author: Eric Hoffer
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Topic: Society
Author: Ivan Illich
Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.