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Consider the end.
Topic: Mottoes
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Topic: Advice
Author: Confucius
All television is children's television.
Author: Fred Allen
And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
Topic: Argument
Author: Robert Burns
'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.
Topic: Teaching
Author: Lord Byron
Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.
Author: Eric Hoffer
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss.".
Author: Anonymous
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Author: Lucille Ball
Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .
Topic: Wrath
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
Topic: Hair
From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.
Topic: Sky
That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.
Author: Doc Edgerton
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
Topic: Laziness
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Author: Herodotus
This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
Topic: Miracles
The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
Author: Wayne Dyer
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Topic: Friendship