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What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high.
Author: Tao Saying
I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.
Author: Duncan Hines
Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow.
Topic: Life
You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
You may only be one person in the world, but to one person you may be the world.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. -Vincent Van Gogh.
Topic: Love
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Topic: Decency
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Topic: Taxes
Author: Oscar Wilde
Moonlight is sculpture.
Topic: Light
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Topic: Appetite
Author: Bible
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.
Topic: Fashion
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Topic: Tragedy
Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena.
Topic: Knowledge
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Topic: Books
Author: Groucho Marx
Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.
Topic: England
Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 It is the Church's mission to confront the world from the Godward side of life with the Christian principles of a free and just society. The dignity, the value, and the importance of every individual are made abundantly clear by the Son of God. He has shown us what human life is intended to be, and we must be willing to stand against whatever is amiss in the temper and disposition of the world, or of any segment of it.
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Topic: Retirement
Author: Unknwon