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The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Topic: Body
A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.
Topic: Courtiers
Author: Lord Byron
At our wittes end.
Topic: Wit
Author: John Heywood
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
Topic: Posterity
Author: Horace
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
Topic: Fraud
Author: John Milton
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
Topic: Future
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Topic: Fortune
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Topic: Ambition
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
Topic: Exwomen
We have all heard that there are two sides to every story, but after listening to many husband and wife arguments I have come to realize there are three sides to every story, her side, his side, and the truth.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
Author: John Braford
Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.
For old age is not honored for length of time, or measured by number of years; but understanding is gray hair for anyone, and a blameless life is ripe old age.
Topic: Wisdom
Author: Bible
It smelt so faint, and it smelt so sweet, It made me creep and it made me cold. Like the scent that steals from the crumbling sheet Where a mummy is half unroll'd.
Topic: Jasmines
Author: Lord Lytton
Remember, don't put it off... Go ahead and do it... If you get to it... And don't do it... You may never get to it.. To do it... Again.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Topic: Pearls
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Topic: Conformity
Author: Mark Twain
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Hating someone is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown