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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Topic: Weather
Author: John Ruskin
Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.
Topic: Letters
Author: Bob Garfield
It is grievous to be caught.
Topic: Crime
Author: Horace
Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
Topic: Sleep
Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long... This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words, "Judge not that ye be not judged," meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful, necessary, and beautiful in the whole Word of God.
Author: F D Maurice
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
Topic: Minority
Bosom upon my counsel, You'll find it wholesome.
Topic: Advice
Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897 To die of love, O martyrdom most blest! For this I long, this is my heart's desire; My exile ends; I soon will be at rest. Ye Cherubim, lend, lend to me your lyre! O dart of Seraphim, O flame of love, Consume me wholly; hear my ardent cry! Jesu, make real my dream! Come Holy Dove! Of love I die!
I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Author: Mark Twain
Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure Truest friend to me; Long my heart has panted, till it well-nigh fainted, Thirsting after Thee. Thine I am, O spotless Lamb; I will suffer naught to hide Thee, Ask for naught beside Thee. In Thine arm I rest me; foes who would molest me Cannot reach me here. Though the earth be shaking, every heart be quaking, God dispels our fear. Sin and hell in conflict fell With their heaviest storms assail us: Jesus will not fail us. Hence, all thoughts of sadness! For the Lord of gladness, Jesus, enters in: Those who love the Father, though the storms may gather, Still have peace within; Yes, whate'er we here must bear, Still in Thee lies purest pleasure, Jesus, priceless treasure!
Wives often object to life insurance, widows never do.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Temptation resisted is the true measure of character.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Louis Dega
A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.
Topic: Military
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.
It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.
Topic: Kisses
I know too much to be conservative or liberal.
Topic: Knowledge
Author: Bible
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Topic: Zeal