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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Topic: Passion
Author: C C Colton
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Maureen Murphy
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Matthew Arnold
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Steve Wozniak
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Topic: Winter
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Topic: Christ
Author: Bible
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Topic: Youth
Author: Robert Browning
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Topic: Value
Author: Thomas Paine
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Dr Charles Edwards
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Topic: History
Author: Juan Antonio Samaranch
This wonder lasted nine daies.
Topic: Wonders
Author: John Heywood
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Topic: Crime
Author: Ovid
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
Topic: Monument
Author: William Hazlitt
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Michael Korda
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
Topic: Communism
Author: Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Topic: Reading
Author: Book Of Common Prayer
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
Topic: Jesting
Author: William Shakespeare
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Topic: Death Immortality
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Topic: Crime
Author: Ramsey Clark