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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
Topic: All About Love
Author: George De Benneville
The Bear and the Fox A bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.
Topic: Aesop Fables
Author: Aesop
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Plutarch
Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will.
Topic: Authority
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.
Topic: Nationalism
Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Topic: Opportunity
Author: Leonard Cohen
Our backgrounds and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
Topic: Perspective
Author: Anonymous
A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
"Do you believe in life after death?" the boss asked one of his employees. "Yes, Sir." the new recruit replied. "Well, then, that makes everything just fine," the boss went on. "After you left early yesterday to go to your grandmother's funeral, she stopped in to see you.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: St Augustine
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: H L Mencken
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Topic: Talent
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Zig Ziglar
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Topic: Choices
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
Topic: Evolution
Author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Topic: Labor
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Topic: Alliance
Author: Ambrose Bierce
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Topic: Wisdom
Author: Walter Lippman