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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Topic: Justification
Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
Topic: Work
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Topic: Art and Artists
Author: Oscar Wilde
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
Topic: Negativity
Author: John Hendrick Bangs
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea: But, before I go, Tom Moore, Here's a double health to thee!
Topic: Toasts
Author: Lord Byron
Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. -Henry David Thoreau-.
Topic: Reverie
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Topic: Philosophy
Author: Seneca
Cut Men's throats with whisperings.
Topic: Slander
Author: Ben Jonson
A dinner lubricates business.
Topic: Eating
Author: William Scott Lord Stowell
Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.
Topic: Women
Author: Unattributed Author
Veritas vos liberabit The truth shall set you free
Topic: Proverbs:Latin
Author: Proverb
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
Topic: Gain
Author: Publilius Syrus
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Dan Quayle
Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.
Topic: Love
Author: Shannon Fancher
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Wayne Dyer
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Topic: Language
Author: Andrea Dworkin