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A careless song, with a little nonsense in it, now and then, does not misbecome a monarch


Horace Walpole

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A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
HORACE WALPOLE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant
CARMINA HORACE Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what ...
GENE WILDER History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
ROALD DAHL You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.
UNKNOWN A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men
WILLY WONKA A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
ANONYMOUS A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
ROALD DAHL A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
ANONYMOUS A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.
JOSEPH ADDISON A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
WILLY WONKA Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co...
THEO ENGELA That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS... If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW She knew too much. -A
SARA SHEPARD May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have l...
REGINA SPEKTOR We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.
ERICA COOK Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex...
UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis...
GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW!
KAMAL KHANZADA It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...
E.M. FORSTER If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. So close
I can almost touch you
But then you're gone
Like mist around the edge...
STACI HART Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?
T.C. BOYLE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a v...
J. K. ROWLING Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botheri...
J. K. ROWLING Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals si...
H. G. WELLS In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hate...
J. K. ROWLING Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLS Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less use...
J. K. ROWLING Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the in...
J. K. ROWLING The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, a...
J. K. ROWLING I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, ...
J. K. ROWLING One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLS

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HORACE Don't think, just do.
HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
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HORACE Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make m...
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HORACE You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and do...
HORACE Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as ga...
HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
HORACE A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with th...
HORACE Labor diligently to increase your property.
HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
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HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
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HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
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HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
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HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
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HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
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HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
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HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
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HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
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