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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.
Topic: Sports
If it is not true it is very well invented.
Topic: Truth
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Topic: Quotes
Author: Orson Welles
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
Topic: God
Author: Plutarch
I always knew that looking back on my tears would someday make me laugh, but I never knew that looking back on my laughter would someday make me cry.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Topic: Haste
Author: Al Bernstein
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Author: Pilgrims
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
Topic: Ivy
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.
Topic: Baseball
Author: Dave Barry
I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
Author: Edward Dyson
A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.
Topic: Blessings
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Topic: Business
Author: Henry R Luce
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Topic: Pain
That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Topic: Libraries
Roses are red Violets are blue Most poems rhyme This one doesn't.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Topic: Habit