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From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the evil in its nature.
Topic: Progress
Elevator is stuck between floors.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss.".
Author: Anonymous
The thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble is sex.
Author: Anonymous
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.
Topic: Movies
Author: Nora Ephron
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
Topic: Knowledge
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
Topic: Quality
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Topic: Learning
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
Topic: Unity
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
To be or not to be... I think its a trick question.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Topic: Life
Author: John Keats
Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.
Topic: Needs
Author: H Stein
Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.
Topic: Temptation
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Topic: Marriage
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Topic: Goodness
For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can.
Topic: Goodness
Author: Epitaph
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Topic: Cliches
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need Of aid from them--she was the Universe.
Topic: Darkness
Author: Lord Byron