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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
Topic: Secrecy
Author: Seneca
It is long past time that the President and this Administration show its evidence. . .Today, we are introducing a Resolution of Inquiry to compel the White House to substantiate its claims. The President led the nation to war, and spent at least $63 billion on that war, on the basis of these unfounded assertions. ~ Rep. Dennis Kucinich http://www.kucinich.us.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
Author: Democritus
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.
Topic: Marriage
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
Topic: Vice
You should not confuse your career with your life.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."
Topic: Dogs
All men make mistakes but married men find out about them sooner.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
Topic: Slander
Author: John Gay
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
Topic: Reputation
But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. .
Topic: Courage
Author: Bible
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind.
Topic: Insanity
Author: Euripides
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Topic: Hospitals
Author: Maggie Kuhn
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
Topic: Restraint
Author: Rufus Choate
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
There lies more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.