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The inifinite is in the finite of every instant.
Topic: Time
Author: Zen Saying
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.
Topic: Instinct
Author: Van Hartmann
My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
Topic: Acting
Author: Unknown
Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! On blithe Yuletide when we were fou, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! Maggie coost her head fu' high, Looked asklent and unco skeigh, Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh: Ha, ha! the wooing o't!
Topic: Wooing
Author: Robert Burns
I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.
Topic: Voting
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Topic: History
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
... a place where they dispense with justice.
Topic: Court
Author: Arthur Train
I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Topic: America
All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
If you don't want your children to hear what you're saying, pretend you're speaking directly to them.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
Topic: Tears
Author: Cicero
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Topic: Computers
Author: Tim Berners
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Author: Herodotus
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Topic: Birth
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.
lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
A kiss to or from a woman we love is a far too delicate pledge of affection to bear the gaze of strangers.
A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
Topic: Knowledge
O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight, Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night; Fell as the mighty archangel, ere the earth glowed in space, fell-- Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!
Topic: Treason