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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
Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.
Topic: Monument
I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.
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.
Author: Billy Sunday
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
Topic: Goals
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron ,
Topic: Joy
Author: Lord Byron
there are ears in the corn field.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?
Topic: Melancholy
Author: Unknown
you can't win 'em all.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.
Topic: Life
Author: Kin Hubbard
liar, liar, pants on fire.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
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
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
There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry.
Topic: Learning
Author: Euclid
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Topic: Fear
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.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Author: St Augustine
This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at alot.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Topic: Age