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The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
Topic: Questions
Author: Leo Stein
is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.
Topic: Divinity
Author: William Harvey
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Topic: Vote
Author: Grover Cleveland
A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Topic: Perfection
Author: Josh Billings
Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.
Topic: Flowers
Author: Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe
The Texas 'redistricting' has outed Tom Delay.
Topic: Abuse
Author: Jim Hightower
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Topic: Unhappiness
Author: Dale Carnegie
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Francis H Bradley
I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? A dry jest, sir. Are you full of them? Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends. Marry, now I let go your hand, I am barren.
Topic: Jesting
Author: William Shakespeare
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Topic: Conformity
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when its through, if you are a crook or a martyr.
Topic: Tax
Author: Will Rogers
In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John, Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.
Topic: Story Telling
Author: Michael Drayton
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
Topic: Anger
Author: Daniel Webster
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements is a definite symptom of maturity.
Topic: Awareness
Author: Paul Tillich
Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance! Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.
Topic: Patriotism
Author: Thomas Campbell
And more than echoes talk along the walls.
Topic: Echo
Author: Alexander Pope
Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me. Let them sail for Porto Rique, Far-off heats through seas to seek. I will follow thee alone, Thou animated torrid-zone!
Topic: Bees
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson