Anonymous Quotes

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Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly, Play the Dead March as you carry me along; Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o'er me, For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.

Anonymous
I'm wild and woolly
And full of fleas;
Ain't never been curried
Below the knees.
I'm a wild she wolf
From Bitter Creek,
And it's my time
To h-o-w-l, whoop-i-e-e-ee.

Anonymous
As an empowerer, I really think that the highs for me have been making people do things they could never do before. Giving them the confidence and the criticism and the help and the ideas, and sharing my chutzpah, the chutzpah I was born with, and making them have it, too. So that's the empowerment.

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They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

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Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules;
Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these;
But of all the world's brave heroes, there's none that can compare
With a tow, row, row, row, row, row, for the British Grenadier.

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Quarry mine, blessed am I In the luck of the chase. Comes the deer to my singing.

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Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,
Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Pat it and prick it, and mark it with B,
Put it in the oven for baby and me.

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No beauty she doth miss,
When all her robes are on;
But beauty's self she is,
When all her robes are gone.

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Love conquers all things—except poverty and toothache.
Often misattributed to Mae West

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Kill then, and bliss me,
But first come kiss me.

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I looked over Jordan, and what did I see?... A band of angels coming after me, Coming for to carry me home.

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Rise and shine and give God the glory
For the year of Jubilee.

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There was a young man from Peru
Whose limericks stopped at line two.

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I don't like the family Stein!
There is Gert, there is Ep, there is Ein.
Gert's writings are punk,
Ep's statues are junk,
Nor can anyone understand Ein.

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There are three sides to every argument: my side, your side and the truth.

Anonymous
Listen!
The fame of Danish kings
in days gone by, the daring feats
worked by those heroes are well known to us.

Anonymous
God protects fools, drunks and the United States of America.

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Capitalism contains within it the seeds of its own destruction.

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There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

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An old joke about the Irish:
Victor Lewis Smith: You clearly don't know the difference between a Joist and a Girder.
Irish Builder: Yes I do. Joist wrote Ulysses and Girder wrote Faust.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

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I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear; The king of Spain's daughter came to visit me, And all for the sake of my little nut tree.

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The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.

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She was poor, but she was honest,
Victim of the squire's whim:
For he wooed and he seduced her,
And she had a child by him.

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When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

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Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Revd James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago.

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Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig, and away he run;
The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,
And Tom went howling down the street.

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Frankie and Albert were lovers, O Lordy, how they could love.
Swore to be true to each other, true as the stars above;
He was her man, but he done her wrong.

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Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but Lady Greensleeves?

Anonymous
If you hear an owl hoot: To whom instead of To who you can make up your mind he was born and educated in Boston.

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