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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Topic: Violence
Author: Salvor Hardin
On a very cold, snowy Sunday in February, only the pastor and one farmer arrived at the village church. The pastor said, "Well, I guess we won't have a service today." The farmer replied: "Heavens!, if even only one cow shows up at feeding time, I feed it.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
Topic: Dress
Author: W Somerset Maugham
Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
Topic: Vanity
Author: Robert Burns
Great hate follows great love.
Topic: Hate
Author: Irish Proverb
Docendo discimus Teach in order to learn
Topic: Proverbs:Latin
Author: Proverb
Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'
Topic: Seasons
Author: Robert Orben
I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.
Topic: Sports
Author: Terry Bradshaw
Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Bill Stern
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
Topic: Discouragement
Author: Francois De Fenelon
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
Topic: Gold
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
Topic: Jealousy
Author: William Shakespeare
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Topic: Jealousy
Author: William Shakespeare
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.
Topic: Christianity
Author: A W Tozer
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
Topic: Advice
Author: Yugoslav Proverb
there will come a day when all the work is finished or when it is too late to finish it.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Gordon R Dickson
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.
Topic: Slander
Author: Douglas Jerrold
No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
Topic: Insult
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe