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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Topic: Age
Author: Fay Weldon
Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5.
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
Topic: Government
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Topic: Worth
Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
Topic: Gifts
Faith is a continuation of reason.
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.
Topic: Practice
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just.
Topic: Mercy
And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, With emphasis, and also with good sense-- A thing in footing indispensable: He danced without theatrical pretence, Not like a ballet-master in the van Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.
Topic: Dancing
Author: Lord Byron
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Topic: Retirement
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Topic: Unity
Author: Edmund Burke
A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
Topic: Absurdity
A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to "honour thy father and thy mother," she asked "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?" Without missing a beat one little boy answered, "Thou shall not kill.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
Topic: Choices
Author: Anonymous
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
Author: Cicero
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
Author: H L Mencken
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Topic: Travel
Author: Seneca
It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.
It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them. There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.