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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Author: Seneca
If you don't know where you're going how do you expect to get there.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.
Topic: Existence
His studie was but litel on the Bible.
Topic: Scripture
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Topic: Ambition
Author: Epictetus
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
Topic: Beginnings
I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!
Author: Cao Xueqin
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Topic: Scandal
Author: Saki
When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Topic: Hair
Author: Bible
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Author: Hedda Hopper
The first in glory, as the first in place.
Topic: Glory
Author: Homer
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Topic: Karate
Author: Dave Barry
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Topic: Idleness
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Author: Les Brown
Speme e Fortune, addio; che' in porto entrai. Schernite gli altri; ch'io vi spregio omai.
Topic: Epitaphs
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Topic: Growth
May your life be long and useful like a roll of toilet paper.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
A murderer and a villain, A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings, A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole And put it in his pocket--
Topic: Thieving
His work well done, the leader stepped aside Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride. Content to wear the higher crown of worth, While time endures, "First citizen of earth."
Topic: Washington
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Topic: Mystery