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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Topic: Advice
Author: Robert L Stevenson
When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Molly Mcgee
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Topic: Attitude
Author: Hans Selye
I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Gracie Allen
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Topic: Pride
Author: Alexander Pope
The trees of life randomly grow but the graves of Arlington are set in rows.
Topic: Calamity
Author: Saiom Shriver
We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.
Topic: Age
Author: Stu Mittleman
The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
Topic: Beds
Author: Rev James Hurdis
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony.
Topic: Change
Author: Dr Robert Anthony
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Topic: Vision
Author: Hal Abelson
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
Topic: Knowledge
Author: Pope Julius III
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
Author: Isabella Beeton
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
Topic: Temptations
Author: Georg C Lichtenberg
Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564 O God in heaven, have mercy on us! Lord Jesus Christ, interecede for your people, deliver us at the opportune time, preserve in us the true genuine Christian faith, collect your scattered sheep with your voice, your divine Word as Holy Writ calls it. Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Albrecht Dürer
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Topic: Constitution
Author: Edward Gibbon
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Topic: Wealth
Author: William Shakespeare
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: G K Chesterton