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The rational hind Costard. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities really exist in it, but often in captivity; they exist as frozen credits and dead capital.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Hendrik Kraemer
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Topic: Stupidity
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
Topic: Guilt
Author: Thomas Paine
Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
Topic: Violence
Author: William O Douglas
Cold blows the wind against the hill, And cold upon the plain; I sit me by the bank, until The violets come again.
Topic: Violets
Author: Richard Garnett
I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
Topic: Golf
Author: Joe E Louis
I'll put that in my considering cap.
Topic: Thought
Author: Francis Beaumont
When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
Topic: Humility
Author: Source Unknown
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Topic: Music
Author: Isaac Stern
He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.
Topic: Key
Author: David Brinkley
One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Topic: History
Author: Will Durant
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Topic: Society
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.
Topic: Change
Author: David Schwartz
How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream, When Sol in joy is seen to leave The earth with crimson beam; When islands that wandered far Above his sea couch lie, And here and there some gem-like star Re-opes its sparkling eye.
Topic: Rivers
Author: Andrew Park
Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the poor person has hope. He thinks money will help.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Jean Kerr
A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
Topic: Smiles
Author: John Milton