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Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
Topic: Ireland
No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.
Topic: Tolerance
Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
Author: Anonymous
One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.
Don't steal. The government hates competition.
Author: Anonymous
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Never judge a book by its movie.
Topic: Books
Author: J W Eagan
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
Topic: Fame
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Topic: Loneliness
Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
Topic: Dogs
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again. - Richard Crashaw,
Topic: Miracles
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Topic: Advice
Author: Paul Claudel
All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
Topic: Books
Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
Topic: Justice
Power has no limits.
Topic: Power
I asked Mom if I was a gifted child...she said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
We are in the same boat.
John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on.
Topic: Soul
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.