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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Topic: Life
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
Caesarism is democracy without liberty.
Topic: Democracy
Author: Taxile Delord
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Topic: Understanding
Author: Van Gogh
Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich.
Topic: Consequences
Author: Daffy Duck
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
Topic: Pity
Author: Lyman Abbott
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Topic: Procrastination
Author: Don Marquis
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. Helen Keller -Charles H. Perkhurst.
Topic: Heart Quotes
Author: Charles H Perkhurst
Recipe; a series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog won't eat.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
Topic: Television
Author: Newton Minnow
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
Topic: Love
Author: Matthew Arnold
When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laertius Diogenes,
Topic: Wine and Spirits
Author: Laertius Diogenes
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
Topic: Society
Author: Benjamin Rush
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Topic: Change
Author: Stanislaw J Lec
Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity, My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.
Topic: Adversity
Author: William Shakespeare
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.
Topic: Boldness
Author: William Joseph Slim
'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
Topic: Royalty
Author: Michael Eyquen
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.
Topic: Literature
Author: Virgil
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
Topic: Results
Author: George Henry Borrow
Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.
Topic: Public Speaking
Author: John Hoskins