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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

By theme : Wit

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

Washington Irving

By theme : Person

You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

By theme : Wisdom Wit

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things, which are beyond the power of our will.

By theme : Happiness

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By theme : Life