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funny law people
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens
funny marriage wedding
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton
funny age fifty
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
funny sarcastic yield
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
funny humorous soul
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
funny humorous expectations
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.
funny humorous rolling
For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
funny humorous majority
In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article
funny humorous thinking
Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.
mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean love-is effort
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
mean land consideration
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. Charles Sturt
mean trust-in-god
Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees. Charles Stanley
mean grace salvation
Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing. Charles Spurgeon
thinking vanity
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking people remember
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself. Charles Stewart Parnell