Anonymous Quotes

922 Sourced Quotes

Don't cross the bridge until you come to it.

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For ours is the harbour, the bridge and the Bradman for ever and ever.

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Let us get back to these sheep [i.e. 'Let us get back to the subject'].

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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Any reform that does not result in the exact opposite of what it was intended to do must be considered a success.

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Though heaven should fall, let thy will be done.

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In Scarlet town, where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin',
Made every youth cry Well-a-day!
Her name was Barbara Allen.
All in the merry month of May,
When green buds they were swellin',
Young Jemmy Grove on his deathbed lay,
For love of Barbara Allen.

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I had a little pony,
His name was Dapple Gray;
I lent him to a lady
To ride a mile away.
She whipped him, she slashed him,
She rode him through the mire;
I would not lend my pony now
For all the lady's hire.

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A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, 'So is the London Tavern'.

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God is life itself to us — the air, the bread, and the blood of the soul. No one can live without, at every moment, drawing upon Him, however unconscious they may be that they are.

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London, thou art the flower of cities all!
Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

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Alcohol doesn't solve any problems…but then again, neither does milk.

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And let all women strive to be As constant as Penelope.

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You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived.

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The north wind doth blow,
And we shall have snow,
And what will poor robin do then,
Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn,
To keep himself warm,
And hide his head under his wing,
Poor thing!

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

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We shall overcome, we shall overcome,
We shall overcome some day Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day.

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Dawn comes no sooner for the early riser.

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Shopping is the chief cultural activity in the United States.

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I'm armed with more than complete steel—The justice of my quarrel.

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The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that he's dead.

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Glos'ter girls they have no combs,
Heave away, heave away!
They comb their hair with codfish bones.

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Husbands is the most undiscovered nation of people there is.

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Retirement means twice as much husband on half as much money.

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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn't know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread,
She whipped them all soundly and put them to
bed.

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One Cartwright brought a Slave from Russia, and would scourge him, for which he was questioned: and it was resolved, That England was too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in.

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Jerusalem, my happy home,
When shall I come to thee?
When shall my sorrows have an end?
Thy joys when shall I see?

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Stay with me, God. The night is dark,
The night is cold: my little spark Of courage dies. The night is long;
Be with me, God, and make me strong.

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Now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock, you have dislodged a boulder, and you will be crushed.

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Simple Simon met a pieman Going to the fair: Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware."

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