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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Topic: Crime
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Topic: Education
Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
Topic: Advice
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize, Not all that glisters gold.
Topic: Appearance
Author: Thomas Gray
The groves were God's first temples.
Topic: Nature
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Topic: Change
Phone for the fish-knives, Norman As Cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I must have things daintily served.
Topic: Fish
A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.
Author: Adolf Hitler
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Topic: Nature
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they have turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.
Author: Alan Paton
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Author: Bela Karolyi
Who got it, did get it; and who left it, did regret it.
Topic: Cliches
Full head of steam.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.
Author: John Selden
If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.
Topic: Parenting
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Topic: Games
Author: Erma Bombeck
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Mad as a March hare.
Topic: Insanity
Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.
Topic: Merriment