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Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.
Topic: Ivy
Author: Alexander Pope
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Topic: Ostentation
Author: Joseph Addison
Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?
Topic: Science
Author: Edward N Lorenz
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Topic: Fortune
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. .
Topic: Body
Author: Jackie Chan
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Topic: Marriage
Author: Andre Maurois
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
Topic: Cruelty
Author: Edward Young
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.
Topic: Finance
Author: John C Burton
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
Topic: Adaptability
Author: William Frederick Book
A book is the only immortality.
Topic: Immortality
Author: Rufus Choate Edward Young
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Topic: Society
Author: Cesare Pavese
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Topic: Humor
Author: Gloria Vanderbilt
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Topic: Pleasure
Author: John Petit Senn
You're never too old to grow up.
Topic: Maturity
Author: Shirley Conran
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
Topic: Faults
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
Topic: Gifts
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.
Topic: Marriage
Author: Judith Viorst
There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Leonard Barnes
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Francis Bacon