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Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.
Topic: Joy
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Topic: Morality
The Buck Stops Here.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Topic: Society
Author: Aeschylus
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God, either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God, too. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there will be nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words ... never really speaking to others.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.
Topic: Taste
Author: Oscar Wilde
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
Author: John Donne
The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
Topic: Society
Author: Eric Hoffer
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Topic: Lying
Author: Bible
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
Topic: Suffering
Author: Plautus
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Topic: Memory
Author: Doug Larson
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger She was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger and she won.
Topic: Health
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Topic: Talent
Welcome! all Wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span. Summer in winter, day in night, Heaven in earth, and God in man. Great little one! whose all-embracing birth Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heav'n to earth!
"O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells."
Topic: Bees
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Topic: Past
Author: Confucius
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Topic: Decision
A minister was talking to similar group of young children. "Who can tell me what we must do before we can expect forgiveness of sin?" There was a moment's pause, then Tommy made a logical contribution: "Well, sir, first we have got to sin.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The fellow mixes blood with his colors.
Topic: Painting
Author: Guido Reni