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Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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
Author: Mickey Lolich
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.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Jimmy Carter
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
Topic: Perspective
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
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
Author: Eugen Herrigel
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
Topic: Advice
Author: John Steinbeck
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
Topic: Memory
Author: Michel De Montaigne
Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing.
Topic: Adultery
Author: Source Unknown
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
Topic: Society
Author: George Gordon Byron
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
Topic: Praise
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Topic: Memory
Author: Alfred Mercier
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
Author: James Gibbons
The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.
Topic: Inspirational
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
Author: Mignon Mclaughlin
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Topic: Achievement
Author: Charles F Kettering
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: De Montesquieu
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.
Topic: General Proverbs
Author: Henry Porter