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ELLA FITZGERALD Il ne faut pas attendre d’être parfait pour commencer quelque chose de bien.
ABBé PIERRE Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r...
ROBERT MUSIL Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire se ressembler. Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire être pareils, se conduire co...
JUSTINE LéVY Tous les jours arrivaient des avions et sur chacun, il y avait un message.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC Il n'y a pas d'amour dans la liberté individuelle, dans l'indépendance, c'est tout simplement un m...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Quel que soit le nombre de saintes paroles que vous lisez, que vous prononciez, quel bien vous feron...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Quand tout le monde est militaire, le crime est de ne pas tuer si l'order 'exige.
ALBERT CAMUS On ne renonce pas à sauver le navire dans la tempête parce qu'on ne saurait empêcher le vent de s...
THOMAS MORE Les hommes ont plus de timidité dans l'esprit que dans le cœur ; et les esclaves volontaires font ...
CHARLES PINOT DUCLOS Je parle de cette douleur qui est tellement grande qu'elle ne semble même pas naître à l'intérie...
ROSA MONTERO Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Notre plus grand mérite n’est pas de ne jamais tomber, mais de nous relever à chaque fois.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nous consommons ressources naturelles, énergie et matières premières comme si elles étaient des ...
MARCEL LéGER Si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l‘autre; vous êtez foutus.
GILLES DELEUZE Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.
IRA LEVIN Si vous n'essayez jamais, vous ne réussirez jamais, mais si vous essayez, vous risquez de vous éto...
THUBTEN YESHE Lorsque la confusion règne, il est facile de se rappeler cette vérité : Je ne suis ni mes pensée...
ECKHART TOLLE Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE Comprendre... Vous n'avez que ce mot-là à la bouche, tous, depuis que je suis toute petite. Il fal...
JEAN ANOUILH Mais dans la vie, tout n'est pas parfait. Parfois, il faut se fabriquer sa propre histoire. Donner u...
SARAH DESSEN « Si vous êtes neutre dans les situations d'injustice, vous avez choisi le camp de l'agresseur. ...
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GEORGES PEREC Il n'y a que deux ou trois crimes à faire dans le monde, dit Curval, et, ceux-là faits, tout est d...
MARQUIS DE SADE Il est très bien de ne pas faire du mal. Mais c'est très mal de ne pas faire du bien
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RENé GUéNON Les pelles ne sont pas élégantes, certes, mais elles ont tout de même réussi a libérer des comm...
T.K. NALIAKA As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l...
NEIL GAIMAN Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillo...
JODI PICOULT Bellegarrigue revient en France en février 1848, la veille des événements qui vont mener au renve...
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE Tu n’es encore pour moi qu’un petit garçon tout semblable à cent mille petits garcons. Et je n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Tout le monde voulait être dans le coup ce jour-là. Car, ce jour-là, on allait écrire l'Histoire...
THOMAS KENEALLY Corto à lui même: Ce serait bon de vivre dans une fable.
Bouche Dorée à Corto: Oh oui!… M...
HUGO PRATT En pleine bagarre, vous vous en tenez au strict nécessaire, à savoir étriper l’adversaire en fa...
JONATHAN STROUD Les gens créent de gros problèmes à partir de rien. Vous les créez car sans problème vous vous ...
DHARMA Nous avons plus de paresse dans l'esprit que dans le corps.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Qui cherche et ne saisit pas ce qui s'offre ne le reverra jamais plus.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lorsque la sexualité disparaît, c'est le corps de l'autre qui apparaît, dans sa présence vagueme...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Tu oublies que tout le monde n'a pas ta force, ni ton courage..."
"On ne nait pas courageux, on...
MARJANE SATRAPI La nuit, tout sent bon", disait Mondo.
"C'est parce qu'on ne voit pas", disait Thi Chin.
"...
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO Alors, Hermione, tu admires toujours autant Lockhart, maintenant? dit Ron à travers le rideau. Si H...
J.K. ROWLING Rien n'est plus dangereux qu'une société qui ne lit pas
MOULOUD BENZADI “We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Le génie de l'oeuvre de Rowling réside non seulement dans son art de raconter des histoires, mais ...
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- Ah oui, lequel?
- je me dema...
GILLES LEGARDINIER La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."
("The dev...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Je ne veux pas que tu aimes "ça en moi", je veux que tu aimes "moi tout entier".
MATHIAS MALZIEU In the adversity of our best friends we often find something
which does not displease us.
[Fr., D...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Si nous avons accordé à l'Amérique le privilège de l'histoire cumulative, n'est-ce pas, en effet...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS ...dans l'un comme dans l'autre cas, je me voyais obligé de passer toute ma vie en société intime...
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WILLIAM RIHANI L’impossible, nous ne l’atteignons pas, mais il nous sert de lanterne.
RENE CHAR You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you
are preparing for yourself!
[Fr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change.
In nature nothing i...
ANTOINE LAVOISIER La porte s’est ouverte tout de suite et est allée co - gner contre le mur. J’ai perçu un claqu...
SYLVIE BéRARD Que l'on soit absent dans la pièce voisine, ou sur l'autre versant de la planète, la différence n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS La Société ne fait-elle pas de l'homme, suivant les milieux où son action se déploie, autant d'h...
HONORé DE BALZAC - Aimer, c'est toujours dangereux, Martin ! Aimer, c'est espérer tout gagner en risquant de tout pe...
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RENé GUéNON Un défaut qui empêche les hommes d'agir, c'est de ne pas sentir de quoi ils sont capables.
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MICHEL FOUCAULT Comment des sociétés contemporaines, restées ignorantes de l'électricité et de la machine à va...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Quant aux toilettes, elles etainet tout simplement inexistantes. Pour faire ses besoins, il fallait ...
ANINA CIUCIU La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait...
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AMéLIE NOTHOMB Tout l'intérêt des fanfics, c'est de jouer avec l'univers de quelqu'un d'autre, d'en modifier les ...
RAINBOW ROWELL Je ne me réveille jamais entier ; des parts de moi restent engluées dans le sommeil.
ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Qu'Est-ce que la mort? Un degré de plus dans le calme et deux peut-être dans le silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Puis il réfléchit: la réalité ne coïncide habituellement pas avec les prévisions; avec une log...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Une catastrophe, en général et quelle que soit sa nature, s'annonce avec fracas, a son lot de sign...
LUCAS VALLERIE Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Ne pas laisser la beauté de l'instant être contaminée par la lourdeur du passé ou l'incertitude ...
MUSSO GUILLAUM Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque o...
MARIE-CLAIRE DOLGHIN-LOYER Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nô...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY La mémoire garde trace de chaque étape d'un voyage au long cours. Comme si le mouvement avait le r...
SYLVAIN TESSON ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Sur terre, ce ne sont pas les occasions de s'émerveiller qui manquent, mais les émerveillés.
ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC Ce monde, tel qu'il est fait, n'est pas supportable. J'ai donc besoin de la lune, ou du bonheur, ou ...
ALBERT CAMUS Sans doute te demandes-tu si je ne suis pas aigri de n'en avoir écrit aucun. Eh bien, non! Mon tale...
ALEXANDRE JARDIN Quant à moi, maintenant, j'ai fermé mon âme. Je ne dis plus à personne ce que je crois, ce que j...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possèd...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Vous avez déjà perdu quelqu'un de proche? [...] Vous n'avez jamais l'impression que ces êtres-là...
LAURENT GAUDé Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait à lui s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il...
RENé GUéNON C'est pas assez que tous tu dis c'est de la merde, François? Tu veux coucher dans la merde, aussi?
JENNIFER DONNELLY You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the
greater dupe, he or you?
[Fr., Vo...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Ni le passé, ni l’avenir ne peuvent nous accabler, puisque l’un n’existe plus et que l’autr...
ALAIN Dans 1984, les livres sont plus ou moins interdits. Aujourd'hui le problème est réglé, pas la pei...
PIERRE FOGLIA What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l...
MADAME MARIE ANNE DU DEFFAND L'amour affronte la Mort ; lui seul, non pas la vertu, est plus fort qu'elle. Lui seul (pas la vertu...
THOMAS MANN Qu'est-ce-que faire l'amour ? c'est languir après le tout proche, comme si une fois levés tout les...
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Lovers face to face, friends side by side.
UNKNOWN AUTHOR Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN The trouble with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generat...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Eat, drink and be scary
AUTHOR UNKNOWN May Jack-o-lanterns burning brightOf soft and golden huePierce through the futureââ‚Â...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,May luck be yours on Halloween.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN On Halloween the thing you must do is pretend that nothing can frighten you. And if something scares...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun mo...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Life is not measured by the number of breaths
that we take but, by the moments that take your breath...
~AUTHOR UNKNOWN Why don't they serve hot dogs at McDonalds? No one could order a McWeiner with a straight face! Just...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN To be a star you must shine your own light, follow your own path and don’t worry about the darknes...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
~AUTHOR UNKNOWN A gypsy fire is on the hearth,
Sign of the carnival of mirth;
Through the dun fields and from the gl...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN When karma comes back to punch you in the face, I wanna be there... just in case it needs help
AUTHOR UNKNOWN When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN No longer will I allow you to get to me, get under my skin or affect me in anyway from now on all yo...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN "...If you did not see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN When I look up, I see things I can't when I look down.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Life has tested us with bad times; Life has gifted us with good times.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN The more you know, the less you need to show.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN no one is rich enough to buy back his past.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN A Bible that's falling apart usually has an owner who isn't.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift that is why it is called the present
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Pain is a part of life, suffering is optional
AUTHOR UNKNOWN You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift of God
AUTHOR UNKNOWN What are you doing on Earth, for Heaven's sake?
AUTHOR UNKNOWN I salute and congratulate you for the future which creates what you are in the present.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Three things are becoming a person: knowledge, good deeds, and gentleness.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Even a jerk can be a total sweetheart, it just takes the right girl to find his heart and to become ...
~AUTHOR UNKNOWN On Halloween the thing you must do is pretend that nothing can
frighten you. And if something scares...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN The truth may hurt once, a lie will hurt everytime it is remembered.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Stay with me flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Forget your heaven, and your hell aswell. Cast out your morbid doubt and sleep a
hundered years. The...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
UNKNOWN AUTHOR If you wait for all the lights to be green, you'll never leave the house.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN LIFE is NOT a problem to be SOLVED but a reality to be EXPERIENCED and a gift to be ENJOYED.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Every Dollar you spend is a vote for what you value in life.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Do not get upset with people or situations, both are powerless without your reaction.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN It is easier to build a child than to repair an adult.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Respect is the ultimate currency
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Everyday isnt good, but there is something good in every day.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's re...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.
~AUTHOR UNKNOWN Fish and company start to stink after three days.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Having butterflys is OK, just make sure they fly in formation.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Live life with a fire that is never extinguished.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Sometimes the strongest among us are the ones who smile through silent pain, cry behind closed doors...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Pretty much nothing in time and space is as important as you think it is. Except, of course, dreamin...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who couldn't care more.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN No heaven will not ever Heaven be Unless my cats are there to welcome me.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN knowledge is when you learn something new everyday, wisdom is when you let something go everyday
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Bottom line, young men die because old men lie.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt or leaky radiator.
~AUTHOR UNKNOWN I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun mor...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN You can't have a rainbow without a storm first
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generat...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Throughout life you will meet one person who is unlike any other, you could talk to this person for ...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Getting an education does not cure stupidity. It lessens ignorance
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Humans are born, then they die. Thus is it better to not have been born at all?
AUTHOR UNKNOWN I, Myself, am made entirely of flaws stitched together with good intentions.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Just walk away and leave
stop pretending like you care
You're my fair weather friend
when things get...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN I tried so hard to be what you needed.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN I'd suggest you find something better to do with your time...” ― Unknown Author 188 advice, advi...
UNKNOWN AUTHOR 188 I'd suggest you find something better to do with your time...
UNKNOWN AUTHOR 188 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR . . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building
castels in the ayre or catchin...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden?
[Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia cresc...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Laurel crowned Horatius
True, how true the saying,
Swift as wind flies over us
Time devo...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The White Plume of Navarre.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.
[Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR He who flies at the right time can fight again.
[Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure
Peut combatt...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists,
nor the Englishmen's gnashing of t...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought
back upon it.)
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Oft he that doth abide
Is cause of his own paine,
But he that flieth in good tide
Perhap...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression
will achieve nothing but failure.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The virtue of her lively looks
Excels the precious stone;
I wish to have none other books
...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the
cock is silent.
[Fr., C'est chos...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR What is lighter than the wind? A feather.
What is lighter than a feather? Fire.
What lighter...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when
she was a skilful mistress of her ar...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I think Nature hath lost the mould
Where she her shape did take;
Or else I doubt if Nature cou...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a
little wife well will'd, are great ric...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A government of laws, and not of men.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring
A Church without a bishop, a State without ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.
[Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'as...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God and God is
matter; and that it is no matter ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A niche in the temple of Fame.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain
To write in water's not to write in vain.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR John Lee is dead, that good old man,--
We ne'er shall see him more:
He used to wear an old dra...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but
whether successful or otherwise, alway...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insur...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean,
The home of the brave and the free,
The shrine of each patr...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR If cold December gave you birth,
The month of snow and ice and mirth,
Place on you hand a Turq...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes
its ultimate aim entirely on grat...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be
marr'd in the ordering, so as to jus...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Happy am I; from care I'm free!
Why aren't they all contented like me?
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Odd instances of strange coincidence.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The children in Holland take pleasure in making
What the children in England take pleasure in brea...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Gently running made sweet music with the enameled stones and
seemed to give a gentle kiss to every ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Solid men of Boston, make no long orations;
Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations;
Soli...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under
direction of a manager, played on ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR 1a \'a\ n, pl a's or as \'az\ often cap, often attrib (bef. 12c) 1
a : the 1st letter of the Englis...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact
that it should be played not only...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I call the Living--I mourn the Dead--
I break the Lightning.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The first of April, some do say
Is set apart for All Fools' day;
But why the people call it so...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR She who from April dates her years,
Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears
For vain repentanc...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have belief t...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word,
That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take
Many soundings ere he conduct his...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
A...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious
and kind. May her touch be soft l...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR In the day, do the day's work.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger
than all fighting.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR When I have been indulging this thought I have, in imagination,
seen the Britons of some future cen...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Never a fishermen need there be
If fishes could hear as well as see.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The February born will find
Sincerity and peace of mind;
Freedom from passion and from care,
...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The service was of great array,
That they were served with that day.
Thus they ate, and made t...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Transcendental moonshine.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Who first beholds the light of day
In Spring's sweet flowery month of May
And wears an Emerald...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Who in this world of ours their eyes
In March first open shall be wise;
In days of peril firm ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the
world.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings,
You came across the watching world to show how he...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial
agreement seems to us to be the bes...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A cat may look like a king.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee,
Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god t...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably wrong.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR This is the best world, that we live in,
To lend and to spend and to give in:
But to borrow, o...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's
wife may starve for hunger.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of
pain, two black crows flew out of h...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR 'Tis bad enough in man or woman
To steal a goose from off a common;
But surely he's without ex...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR She was and is (what can there more be said?)
On earth the first, in heaven the second maid.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behov...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of
downright bashfulness, that by a strange ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The asses' bridge.
[Lat., Pons Asinorum.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A blind bargain.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But
a pig will look you straight in t...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The cattle upon a thousand hills.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR If the end be well, all will be well.
[Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR It ain't over till it's over.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The man that weds for greedy wealth,
He goes a fishing fair,
But often times he gets a frog,
...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR To kiss the rod.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR But we that have but span-long life,
The thicker must lay on the pleasure;
And since time will...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The weakest goeth to the wall.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven
for the lazy, but we allow eight to ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Drinking will make a man quaff,
Quaffing will make a man sing,
Singing will make a man laugh,
...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell,
Who first invented this leathern bottel!
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR When treading London's well-known ground
If e'er I feel my spirits tire,
I haul my sail, look ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The Channel is that silver strip of sea which severs merry
England from the tardy realms of Europe.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Those pigmy tribes of Panton street,
Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,
Obedient to a ty...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Jesus Christ is risen to-day,
Our triumphant holy day;
Who did once upon the cross
Suffe...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Era of good feeling.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR He who labours, prays.
[Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Oh, tell me whence Love cometh!
Love comes uncall'd, unsent.
Oh, tell me where Love goeth!
...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one
idea.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a 'C', the idea must b...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat.
(Death levels sceptre and the law.)
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Tell me, shepherds, have you seen
My Flora pass this way?
In shape and feature Beauty's queen,...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be
momentarily comforting.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day! For it is Life,
The very Life of Lif...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The rise of every man he loved to trace,
Up to the very pod O!
And, in baboons, our parent rac...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR This picture, plac'd the busts between
Gives Satire all its strength;
Wisdom and Wit are littl...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The diamond's virtues well might grace
The epigram, and both excel
In brilliancy in smallest s...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye
Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie.
Sweet boy...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,
essential, and unalienable rights.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Thee is a skeleton on every house.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Let the "Tribune" put all this in its pipe and smoke it.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be
In commune held by Pallas and by thee?
Her ple...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown
I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote th...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the
roads, and in the markets, instructs t...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all
arts. This was first invented about ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I pray the prayer the Easterners do,
May the peace of Allah abide with you;
Wherever you stay,...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget
me.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Doubt not but God who sits on high,
Thy secret prayers can hear;
When a dead wall thus cunning...
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