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...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Hier aupres de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Freron, Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Ce...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; February eight-and-twenty all alone, ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Exce...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix; Every other thirty-one, E...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR As drifting logs of wood may haply meet On ocean's waters surging to and fro, And having met, ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet, Next Dr. Merry-man And Dr. Dyet.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on h...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The glowing Ruby should adorn Those who in warm July are born, Then will they be exempt and fr...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A maiden born when Autumn leaves Are rustling in September's breeze, A Sapphire on her brow sh...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know; But lay on Opal on her bre...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn; They will insure her co...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity. The August-born without this stone 'Ti...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow Should prize the Topaz'...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan! B...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas-- But s...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The deep slumber of a decided opinion.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR "There beauty half her glory veils, In cabs, those gondolas on wheels."
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The medicine chest of the soul.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow; And when the leaves in Summer-tim...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The grave's the market place.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light, And chuckling cried, "Now you can't see to bite."
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR But death is sure to kill all he can get And all is fish with him that comes to net.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR One that is neither flesh not fish.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A man is either free or he is not.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Meta...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke Fresh to all Ages.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all; Fire and sleete, and candle lighte ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the n...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The ki...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR An Austrian army awfully arrayed.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down, As Jove, descending fro...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Sancta Maria ad Nives.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul; Death the h...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Live ye, he says, I flee.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream; But if 'tis ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old. - Un...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Begone about your business.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not, Tyme passeth and speketh not.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR That blessed word Mesopotamia.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR "Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right; But if to-morrow never came, ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Our country, however bounded.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Our common Father and Deliverer, to whose prudence, wisdom and valour we owe our Peace, Liberty and...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man, History and tradition ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour, And say it goeth by destiny T...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Dollar Diplomacy.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Nation of shopkeepers.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Tom he was a piper's son, He learned to play when he was young; Bug all the tune that he could...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps Sings o'er the hill and f...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Medicine for the soul.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I seek for one as fair and gay, But find none to remind me, How blest the hours pass'd away ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The silente man still suffers wrong.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The woman that deliberates is lost.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Snug as a bug in a rug.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Wode has erys, felde has sigt.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Mind your P's and Q's.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]
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