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A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.
Topic: Babyhood
Author: Samuel Lover
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Topic: Movies
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you."
Topic: Brevity
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
Topic: Fight
Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Do those who say, "Lo here, or lo there, are the signs of His coming", think to be too keen for Him, and spy His approach? When He tells them to watch lest He find them neglecting their work, they stare this way and that, and watch lest He should succeed in coming like a thief!
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Topic: Gifts
Author: Saint Jerome
Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
Topic: Excess
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Topic: Advice
Author: Annie Besant
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Author: Woody Allen
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Topic: Patriotism
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
Topic: Pretension
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Topic: Waste
life is a series of disappointments, followed by death.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
Author: Confucius
Death is near and our mutual company is short.
Author: Hazrat Ali
. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.
Topic: Killing
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Topic: Philosophy
Author: Lord Darling
Do you have potatoes growing in your ears?
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Topic: Business