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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Topic: Shoemaking
Author: Cervantes
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Topic: Weapons
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Topic: Suffering
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same block out of which you two were cutte?
Topic: Character
Author: A H Bullen
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Topic: Winning
If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris.
Topic: Solaris
Author: Dave Morgan
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
Author: John Milton
Martha was watching the football game with me when she said, 'You know, most of these sports are based on the idea of one group protecting its territory from invasion by another group.' 'Yeah,' I said, trying not to laugh. Girls are funny.
Topic: Football
Author: Jack Handey
His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
Topic: Argument
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.
Topic: Umbrellas
And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.
Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!
Topic: Friends
Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.
Topic: Women
O month when they who love must love and wed.
Topic: May
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
Topic: Strength
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Topic: Heroism
The mind forgets but the heart always remembers. -Anon.
Author: Anon
Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine; A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Topic: Rivers