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Stolen sweets are best.
Topic: Theft
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Topic: Anger
Author: Mark Twain
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
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
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
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Topic: Eternity
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
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.
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
Good night! I have to say good night, To such a host of peerless things!
Topic: Parting
Chide me not, laborious band! For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Goes home loaded with a thought.
Topic: Asters
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Topic: Society
Author: Aeschylus
Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.
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
there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
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.