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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Topic: Violence
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
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
Docendo discimus Teach in order to learn
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
Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Author: Bill Stern
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
Topic: Gold
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...
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
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Topic: Jealousy
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.
Author: A W Tozer
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
Topic: Advice
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.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.
Topic: Slander
No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
Topic: Insult