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Stolen sweets are best.
Topic: Theft
Author: Colley Cibber
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Topic: Anger
Author: Mark Twain
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone.
Topic: Melancholy
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
I pray that every passing hour Your hearts may bruise and beat, I pray that every step you take May bruise and burn your feet.
Topic: Hatred
Author: Emile Cammaerts
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Topic: Eternity
Author: Joseph Addison
Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Topic: Dreams
Author: Neil Kendall
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Topic: Hippies
Author: Joseph Gallivan
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Nicola Foulston
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.
Topic: Society
Author: H L Mencken
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.
Topic: Suicide
Author: Francis Beaumont
Good night! I have to say good night, To such a host of peerless things!
Topic: Parting
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Chide me not, laborious band! For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Goes home loaded with a thought.
Topic: Asters
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.
Topic: Deep Thoughts
Author: Jack Handy
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Topic: Beginnings
Author: Louis LAmour
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Topic: Artists
Author: George Bernard Shaw
I bet a lot of mimes choke to death because nobody believes they're really choking.
Topic: Mimes
Author: John Gephart
Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare