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Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
Topic: Genius
Author: Isaac DIsraeli
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Topic: Love
Author: Oscar Wilde
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Topic: Hippies
Author: Joseph Gallivan
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
Topic: Wealth
Author: Henry George
The British tourist was asked what he thought of the Grand Canyon.. and wrote back 'gorge-ous'.
Topic: Humor
Author: Unknown
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Topic: Taste
Author: Jean De La Bruyère
From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.
Topic: Sky
Author: Alexander Pope
God save the mark. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
Topic: Taxes
Author: F J Raymond
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
Topic: Scripture
Author: George Herbert
For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.
Topic: Monuments
Author: Sir Thomas More
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Satchel Paige
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Robert Burton
The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
Topic: Courage
Author: D A Battista
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Topic: Fortune
Author: Benjamin Franklin
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Burt Bacharach
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Herodotus
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Heraclitus
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Topic: Universe
Author: Woody Allen