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Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
Topic: Absence
Author: Homer
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Topic: Humor
Author: Ellie Katz
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
Topic: Conformity
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee, Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Topic: Absence
Raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
A full boat. (referring to a full house in poker).
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
Topic: Spring
How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.
Topic: Existence
Author: John Longden
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
Author: J C Macaulay
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Topic: Enjoyment
Author: Humboldt
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Anger doesn't win games
Topic: Anger
Author: Gary Beban
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Topic: Theory
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Topic: Country
Author: Lord Acton
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Topic: Enemy
Author: Gene Fowler
The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.
Topic: Literature
Author: Robert Burns
The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menius.
Author: Menius
He wakes a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn air.
Topic: Worship
Author: Robert Burns
Justice is incidental to law and order.