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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
Topic: Vote
Author: O Henry
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
Author: Tim Gould
Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
Topic: Bible
Author: The Bible
'Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Topic: Christmas
I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is a devil.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Topic: Words
Author: Bible
Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a god dam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody.
Topic: Death
Author: J D Salinger
I always knew that looking back on my tears would someday make me laugh, but I never knew that looking back on my laughter would someday make me cry.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Anger should never be an overnight guest.
Topic: Anger
And plenty makes us poor.
Topic: Poverty
Author: John Dryden
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.
They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Topic: Law
Author: Bible
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;-- The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that our of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
Topic: Holidays
And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him: And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
Topic: Apparel
Author: Bible
No matter what happens Today. You must remember that...Today will be Tomorrow's past, and Tomorrow will be Today.
Topic: Cliches
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith, and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. .
Topic: Advice
Author: Bible
Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
Topic: Business
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Author: Hobart Brown