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Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.
Topic: Christ
Author: Sidney Lanier
O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Topic: Hypocrisy
Author: William Shakespeare
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Topic: Death Immortality
Author: Mark Twain
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of you nose.
Topic: Deep Thoughts
Author: Jack Handy
As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find.
Topic: Mind
Author: Samuel Daniel
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
Topic: Waste
Author: Samuel Butler
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
Topic: God
Author: George Bernard Shaw
There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
Topic: Kisses
Author: Robert Herrick
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Topic: Procrastination
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Topic: Appearance
Author: Aeschylus
Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.
Topic: Famous Last Words
Author: Carl Panzram
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. If I don't keep changing. I'm history.
Topic: Basketball
Author: Larry Bird
One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer.
Topic: Books First Lines
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Samuel Hoffenstein
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Topic: Bereavement
Author: Socrates
Simple is better.
Topic: Detail
Author: Geoffrey Mompremier
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
Topic: Deep Thoughts
Author: Jack Handy
The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Norman Vincent Peale