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The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
Topic: Future
Author: Source Unknown
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
Topic: Draft
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The society of women is the element of good manners.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Jonathan S Haas
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till lap year gives it twenty-nine.
Topic: Months
Author: Unattributed Author
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Topic: Change
Author: Francis Bacon
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
Topic: Famous Last Words
Author: Marechal Ferdinand Foch
May you live all the days of your life.
Topic: Toasts
Author: Jonathan Swift
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner.
Topic: Listening
Author: Wilson Mizner
A great ship askes deepe waters.
Topic: Ships
Author: George Herbert
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.
Topic: Work
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
Topic: Last Words
Author: Sir Isaac Newton
The integrity of the game is everything.
Topic: Sports
Author: Peter Ueberroth
Make your life a mission-not an intermission.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Arnold Glasgow
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
Topic: All About Love
Author: William Cowper
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
Topic: Extremes
Author: George Chapman
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
Topic: Law
Author: Felix Frankfurter
Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
Topic: Advice
Author: Christine Collange
God loveth the clean.
Topic: Cleanliness
Author: Koran
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
Topic: Compromise
Author: Gilbert K Chesterton
Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.
Topic: Eating
Author: William Shakespeare