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More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Topic: Marriage
Author: Doug Larson
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
Topic: Kindness
Author: A A Milne
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Topic: Love
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibnitz
The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Topic: Prejudice
Author: Mark Twain
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Topic: Doubt
Author: Buddha
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Topic: Creativity
Author: Robert Flaherty
The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
Topic: Politics
Author: Larry Hardiman
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: David Lloyd George
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Topic: Possibilities
Author: Aristotle
Every believer is God's miracle.
Topic: Miracles
Author: Philip James Bailey
Love one another as Jesus loves you. Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought, For these are the things Jesus taught.
Topic: Love
Author: Anonymous
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
Topic: Teaching
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.
Topic: Decision
Author: Samoan Proverb
Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my works? I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should present me with yours.
Topic: Epigrams
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Topic: Optimism
Author: Jonathan Swift
What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me "dust to dust."
Topic: June
Author: Thomas Hood