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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
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.
Topic: Gifts
Author: Sherry Hochman
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.
Topic: Imagination
Author: Terry Prachett
which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.
Topic: Journalism
Author: Von Schonhausen Bismarck
We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Topic: Unity
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Jose Ortega Gasset
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.
Topic: Philanthropy
Author: Thomas Campbell
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Topic: Contentment
Author: Vivian Greene
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart. -Jesus Christ.
Topic: Heart quotes
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.
Topic: Computer Science
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
Author: John Mason Brown