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For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.
Topic: Temptation
Author: William Shakespeare
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
Topic: Unix
Author: Eric Allman
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Ben Jonson
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
Topic: Intellect
Author: George Sand
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Topic: Mind
Author: William Cowper
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Topic: Law
Author: Earl Warren
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Topic: History
Author: Augustine Birrell
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Topic: Modesty
Author: Honore De Balzac
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Topic: Communication
Author: Russell Hoban
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
Topic: Worry
Author: Robert Orben
Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
Topic: Last Words
Author: Oscar Wilde
Stupid is as stupid does.
Topic: Advice
Author: Joseph La Bonde
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."
Topic: Agriculture
Author: Jonathan Swift
We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.
Topic: Names
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.".
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Les Claypool
The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Margaret Gatty
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Topic: Courage
Author: Channing Pollock
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Topic: Education
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Topic: Thoughts
Author: Sara Teasdale