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Church is the only place I know, where I can arrive late and get the best seats in the house!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!
Topic: Advice
Author: H R Haldeman
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.
Topic: Change
Author: Claudian
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Topic: Doubt
Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
Topic: Conscience
Author: John Milton
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Topic: Diplomacy
Author: Tony Benn
Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."
Topic: Bribery
Author: William Coxe
My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.
Author: Mal Pancoast
When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow; And when the leaves in Summer-time their colour dare not show; Then will I change the colour too, I wear in my caubeen; But till that day, plaze God, I'll stick to wearin' o' the Green.
Topic: Ireland
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
Topic: Liberty
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
Topic: Education
Author: Henry Adams
He holds him with his glittering eye-- . . . . And listens like a three years' child.
Topic: Listening
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Topic: Comedians
This nation has dehumanized its adversaries calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.
Author: Jimmy Carter
Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.
Topic: July