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He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Topic: Struggle
Author: Unknown
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Topic: Buying
Author: Fran Lebowitz
Bad planing on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Lord Dewar
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Mary Astell
Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
Topic: Choice
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
Topic: Secrecy
Author: Jean De La Fontaine
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
Topic: Influence
Author: Elizabeth Bibesco
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
Topic: Vanity
Author: Luc De Clapier
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -Crowfoot.
Topic: Life
Author: Crowfoot
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
Topic: Opposition
Author: George Eliot
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
Topic: Luck
Author: J Christopher Herold
Turn your scars into stars.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Robert Schuller
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
Topic: Existence
Author: Sandra Boynton
Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Quentin Crisp
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Topic: Matrimony
Author: Bible
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Topic: Kitchen
Author: Charles Bukowski
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. - You've Had Your Time, 1990.
Topic: Appearance
Author: Anthony Burgess