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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.
Topic: Cats
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Topic: Attitude
Author: Earl Nightingale
Victory is a thing of the will.
Topic: Victory
Author: General Ferdinand Foch
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
Topic: Stupidity
Author: Alexander Pope
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Topic: Charity
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
Topic: Romance
Author: Anonymous
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Anonymous
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Topic: Praise
Author: Duc De La Rochefoucauld
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
Topic: Wealth
Author: Horace
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: John Barrymore
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
Topic: Computers
Author: Porterfield
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Topic: Death Immortality
Author: Mark Twain
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Jacques Delille
All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Roseanne Barr
Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
Topic: Satire
Author: William Cowper
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.
Topic: Anger
Author: Tzu Sun
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Topic: Life
Author: Thomas Merton