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Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!
Author: Anonymous
A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.
Author: Kevin Nealon
Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
Topic: Ballads
Author: John Dryden
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
Topic: Vulgarity
Author: Mark Twain
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Topic: Cowards
Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
Author: John Owen
Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
Author: Sally Koch
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Topic: Friendship
Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: If we are prepared to admit, even as a possibility, that Jesus was divine, or even that without being divine he was unique, then we must, as a matter of logic, discard any attempt to discredit the Gospel accounts on the ground that they record miracles.
Author: E L Mascall
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Topic: Life
Author: Erich Fromm
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.
Topic: Pessimism
In the gloamin' o' the wood The throssil whusslit sweet.
Topic: Thrushes
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
Topic: Duty
Author: John Dryden
We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the sole reason of finally becoming superfluous. Of heaven St. John the Divine said, "I saw no temple therein.".
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
Topic: Loss
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
Topic: Death
Information is not knowledge.
Topic: Knowledge
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.
Topic: Being