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Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.
There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are.".
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
Topic: Shoemaking
Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.
Topic: Evil
Author: Talmud
If you decide not to choose then you've already made the wrong choice!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Topic: Pride
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Topic: Cliches
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
Topic: Time
Author: Robert Frost
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
Topic: Body
Author: Seneca
Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia.
Topic: Character
Author: Horace
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.
Author: Eric Hoffer
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Clothes make the man.
Topic: Dress
It was swept under the carpet.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades. From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Watching, silently weeps. Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine. Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter? Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.
Topic: Beauty
Author: Walt Whitman
It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.
Topic: Vacation
You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face, I now Say what I think.
Topic: Lying
And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet?
Topic: Disgrace
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an' took--the same as me.
Topic: Plagiarism
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
Topic: Boston