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Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
Topic: Experience
Author: Dante
There is a stone there, That whoever kisses, Oh! he never misses To grow eloquent. 'Tis he may clamber To a lady's chamber Or become a member Of Parliament.
Topic: Ireland
Author: Father Prout
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."
The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.
Topic: Melancholy
Author: Duck Daffy
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' , but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.
Author: Isaac Asimov
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
Topic: Society
Left that command Sole daughter of his voice.
Topic: Duty
Author: John Milton
There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Topic: Pride
What is the difference between a Peeping Tom and someone who's just got out of the bath?One is rude and nosy, and the other's nude and rosy.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.
Topic: Ravens
Words of love, are works of love.
Topic: Words
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
Author: Ben Bayol
Enough ants can eat an elephant.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Topic: Survival
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
Topic: Business
A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Topic: Rain
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. -I. Krishnamurti.
Topic: Change