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Doctor, doctor, my hair's coming out.Can you give me something to keep it in?Certainly - how about a paper bag?
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
Topic: Leisure
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
Topic: Names
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they've been hurt before.
Author: Anonymous
Unto the pure all things are pure.
Topic: Innocence
Author: Bible Titus
Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
Topic: Umbrellas
Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.
Topic: Growth
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.
Topic: Temptation
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
Topic: Eating
Author: John OKeefe
The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one.
Topic: Lying
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
Topic: Jesting
Author: John Dennis
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
Topic: Trouble
Author: Bowyer Bell
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Topic: Society
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Topic: Sports
'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."
Topic: England
Author: Eliza Cook
that's enough to piss off the good humor man!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown