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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Topic: Gratitude
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Topic: Wives
Author: Bible
It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.
Topic: Society
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Author: Bible
Then I cast loose my buff coat, each halter let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise bad or good, 'Til at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood.
Topic: Horses
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. -Barbara Johnson.
Topic: Love
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
Topic: Behavior
Author: Alfred Adler
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Topic: Abortion
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Author: Socrates
Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.
Author: Eileen Caddy
Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.
Author: Fritz Reiner
Life is a cement trampoline.
Topic: Life
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Topic: Knowledge
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
Topic: Neurosis
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
Topic: Money
If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't?
Topic: Unix
All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.
Author: John Selden