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Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
Topic: Absurdity
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Mike Conner
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Topic: Change
Author: Robert C Gallagher
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Topic: Happiness
Author: Hosea Ballou
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Topic: Liberal
Author: Barry Goldwater
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
Topic: Kindness
Author: A A Milne
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
Topic: Monuments
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Feast of Thomas the Apostle In the era of faith there is room for repentance, since each person can decide freely for Christ; in the era of sight, when the reign of Christ is manifest, only judgment is left for the undecided.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Otto Betz
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
Topic: Flattery
Author: Juvenal
A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.
Topic: Compassion
Author: Alan Dershowitz
I think that there is no reason to doubt but that the blessed spirits above, who continually "behold the face of their Father", are still writing after this copy which is here propounded to us, and endeavouring to be "perfect as their Father which is in heaven is perfect", still aspiring after a nearer and more perfect resemblance of God, whose goodness and mercy is far beyond and before that of any creature, that they may be for ever approaching nearer to it and yet never overtake it.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Tillotson
Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.
Topic: Art and Artists
Author: Napoleon
Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
Topic: Fidelity
Author: James Parton
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.
Topic: Inspiring
Author: Matthew Arnold
Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris, And her father assures me each time she was there That she and her friend Mrs. Harris . . . Spent six consecutive weeks, without shopping In one continuous round of shopping,-- . . . And yet, though scarce three months have passed since the day This merchandise went on twelve carts, up Broadway, This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison Square The last time we met was in utter despair Becasue she had nothing whatever to wear.
Topic: Apparel
Author: William Allen Butler
It is not what you would do with your millionsshould riches ness be your lot. It is what you are doing at presentwith the dollar and quarter you've got.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!
Topic: Preaching
Author: Robert Browning
"So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?" "Hush, dear, hush! Be quiet, dear! quiet as a mouse. These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them."
Topic: Bluebirds
Author: Susan Coolidge
To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe.
Topic: Oneness
Author: Peggy Jenkins
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
Topic: Death Immortality
Author: Kahlil Gibran