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Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
Topic: Farewells
Author: Robert Byrne
As soon as she begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
Topic: Shame
Author: Titus Livy
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, place them in their best light.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
Topic: Wonder
Author: M C Escher
In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboureth to good purpose.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Topic: Leadership
Author: Blaine Lee
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
Author: H Ross Perot
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Topic: Misery
Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed.
Topic: Toasts
A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
Topic: Discretion
Author: Thomas Hardy
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
Author: Doug Macleod
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.
Topic: Prison
Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus: I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged From the spongy south to this part of the west, There vanished in the sunbeams; which portends, Unless my sins abuse my divination, Success to th' Roman host.
Topic: Eagles
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
Topic: Government
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Topic: Egotism
Author: Frank Leahy
All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.
Topic: Universe
Author: Carl Sagan
Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! . . . . All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!
Topic: April
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
Author: Slappy White
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.
Topic: Music