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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Topic: Dogs
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.
Topic: Monument
Author: Thomas Fuller
I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Ferdinand I
Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.
Topic: Intuition
Author: Plotinus
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Billy Sunday
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
Topic: Goals
Author: Quentin Crisp
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron ,
Topic: Joy
Author: Lord Byron
Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?
Topic: Melancholy
Author: Unknown
I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.
Topic: Life
Author: Kin Hubbard
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. . . . . The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
Topic: Water
Author: Samuel Woodworth
Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave, Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save; So peace instead of death let us bring; But yield, proud foe, let us bring; With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King.
Topic: Victory
Author: Thomas Campbell
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Topic: Fear
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Helmut Schoeck
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Topic: Perspective
Author: St Augustine
This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at alot.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: George W Bush
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Topic: Age
Author: Maurice Chevalier