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Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3.
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.
All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'
Topic: Baseball
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Author: Jimmy Carter
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
Topic: Value
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
Topic: Advice
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
Topic: Memory
Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing.
Topic: Adultery
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
Topic: Society
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
Topic: Praise
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Topic: Memory
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Topic: History
Author: Sting
I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
Topic: Humor
The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.
Author: Seneca
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.
Topic: Needs
Author: Eric Hoffer
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Topic: Generosity
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying, Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
Author: Henry Porter