Anonymous Quotes

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The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown:
The rising of the sun
And the running of the deer,
The playing of the merry organ,
Sweet singing in the choir.

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If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
Often attributed to Joe Laurie, Jr.

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Oh bury me not on the lone prairie Where the wild coyotes will howl o'er me.

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The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode their rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which those changes can be reversed.

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There was a young man of Dijon,
Who had only a little religion,
He said: 'As for me,
I detest all the three,
The Father, the Son, and the Pigeon.'

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If your enemy turns to flee, give him a silver bridge.

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Make only those mistakes that you really enjoy.

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Come, landlord, fill the flowing bowl
Until it doth run over…
For to-night we'll merry be,
To-morrow we'll be sober.

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Attributed to Mark Twain

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The fish dies because he opens his mouth.

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We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

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To live a life through is not like crossing a field.

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Uprose the Monarch of the Glen
Majestic from his lair,
Surveyed the scene with piercing ken,
And snuffed the fragrant air.

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It's good to be merry and wise,
It's good to be honest and true;
It's good to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.

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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Attributed to Muhammad Ali based on its use in Adidas ads.

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If you want to be happy for a day, go fishing. If you want to be happy for a week, get married. If you want to be happy for a month, kill a pig. If you want to be happy and contented for all time, smoke a pipe.

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Children: You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen years telling them to sit down and shut up.

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Ding dong bell,
Pussy's in the well.
Who put her in?
Little Johnny Green.

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It was a friar of orders gray Walked forth to tell his beads.

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To a person who consents no injustice is done.

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Yankee Doodle came to town Riding on a pony, He stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni. Yankee Doodle, keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy.

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There is nothing in the mind that has not previously been in the senses.

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Little Tommy Tittlemouse Lived in a little house; He caught fishes In other men's ditches.

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Half owre, half owre to Aberdour,
'Tis fifty fathoms deep;
And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens,
Wi' the Scots lords at his feet!

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Three Philadelphia lawyers are a match for the very devil himself.

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I belong to that highly respectable tribe Which is known as the Shabby Genteel... Too proud to beg, too honest to steal.

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When you are in jail a good friend will be bailing you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying 'Damn that was fun'.

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Between 50 and 60, sex is out there. If you want it, you can connect. After 60, you have to supply the sled, the snow and the dog team.

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He tickles this age that can
Call Tullia's ape a marmasyte
And Leda's goose a swan.

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Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John,
He went to bed with his stockings on;
One shoe off, one shoe on;
Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John.

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