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Kill the ump!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.
Topic: October
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
Author: James Bryce
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Topic: Doubt
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Topic: History
Author: Rebecca West
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Topic: Revenge
I care not twopence.
Topic: Worth
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Author: Carl Jung
War profiteer cartels and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime are called The United States by warwhore news teams. Everywhere including peace loving Schenectady the American people dislike such synecdoches.
Topic: Truth
What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
Topic: Idleness
Author: John Heywood
All this, and Heaven too!
Topic: Heaven
Author: Philip Henry
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
Author: Cheers
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
Topic: Breeding
Author: Bidpai
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
Topic: Gambling
Author: Dean Martin
Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible.
Topic: Memory
A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell. On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.
Topic: Heaven
Observe the opportunity.
Author: Bible
Life is like an onion. You peel it off layer by layer and sometimes you cry.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
Topic: World
Author: Ben Elton