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The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, "Take only one, God is watching." Moving through the line, to the other end of the table, was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. One of the boys wrote a note, "Take all you want, God is watching the apples.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
happy smoke (marijauna).
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.
Topic: Gifts
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Topic: Money
Author: Aphra Behn
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Topic: Marriage
Author: Rita Rudner
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Topic: Wives
Author: Groucho Marx
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.
Topic: Journalism
We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Topic: Unity
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
Topic: Work
Author: Mark Twain
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank.
Topic: Ambition
Author: Cicero
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
I can not dial 911. There's no 11 on my phone.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart. -Jesus Christ.
Author: Jesus Christ
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Author: M C Reed
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Topic: Bargain
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
Topic: Ideas
Author: John Cage
Anger opens the mouth and shuts the mind.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown