Anonymous: Beer
Some see the glass as half full, others see the glass as half empty. I just wonder who the hell has been drinking my beer!
(As seen on a T-Shirt in Portland, Oregon)
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Anonymous: Beer
People who drink light “beer” don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot.
(Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI)
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Anonymous: Blessing
Fad saol agat, gob fliuch, agus bás in Éirinn!
(Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland)
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Anonymous: Blessing
Sláinte chuig na fir, agus go mairfidh na mná go deo!
(Health to the men and may the women live forever)
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Anonymous: Blessing
Slàinte mhor a h-uile là a chi 's nach fhaic
(Great health to you every day that I see you and every day that I don't)
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Anonymous: Humor
You are only crazy if you never accept the fact that being right has never been an effective defense for sanity.
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Anonymous: Humor
A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned one will take only twice as long.
(Brasington's Ninth Law)
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Anonymous: Humor
It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.
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Anonymous: Humor
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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Anonymous: Motto
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
(No-one provokes me with impunity -Motto of the Order of the Thistle)
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Anonymous: Motto
Pleidiol Wyf I'm Gwlad
(True am I to my country) - from the chorus of the Welsh National Anthem)
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Anonymous: Proverb
Math may not teach me how to add love or subtract hate, but it gives me every reason to hope that every problem has a solution
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWPg7aWD9EI)
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Anonymous: Proverb
Alle kunst ist umsonst wenn ein angel in das zundloch prunst!
(All skill is in vain if an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket!
Old military proverb)
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Anonymous: Proverb
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
(Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Benjamin Franklin (Thanks, Art))
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Anonymous: Proverb
finis coronat opus
(The end crowns the work." or "The end justifies the means
Motto of St. Mary's Catholic High School in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Coat of arms of Seychelles
Coat of arms of the Amin Investment Bank)
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Anonymous: Proverb
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
(Polish Proverb)
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Anonymous: Proverb
lex parsimoniae : entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness": entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity)
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Anonymous: Proverb
“Messenger with bad news should keep one foot in the stirrup.”
(Ancient Turkish proverb)
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Anonymous: Proverb
Bíonn gach duine go lách go dtéann bó ina gharraí.
(Everybody is good natured until a cow goes into his garden)
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Anonymous: Proverb
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
(Ancient Turkish proverb)
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Anonymous: Proverb
Semper vigilo fortis paratus et fidelis
(Always/Remain awake, strong, prepared and faithful)
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Anonymous: Proverb
Stare decisis et non quieta movere
(Maintain what has been decided; not alter that which has been established / Stick with the precedent)
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Anonymous: Politics
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
(National Review)
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Anonymous: Military
The only guarantee of our rights tomorrow is vigilance today
(From the internet website: Revolutionary War Archives, 18 Sep 2009, http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/index.php)
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Anonymous: Poetry
Eternal Father, Strong to Save
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who biddest the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy Word,
Who walked on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
O Trinity of love and power!
Our family shield in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect us wheresoever we go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
Alternate verses:
Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
Through the great spaces in the sky.
Be with them always in the air,
In darkening storms or sunlight fair;
Oh, hear us when we lift our prayer,
For those in peril in the air!
Aloft in solitudes of space,
Uphold them with Thy saving grace.
Thou Who supports with tender might
The balanced birds in all their flight.
Lord, if the tempered winds be near,
That, having Thee, they know no fear.
Mary C. D. Hamilton (1915)
Eternal Father, Lord of hosts,
Watch over the men who guard our coasts.
Protect them from the raging seas
And give them light and life and peace.
Grant them from Thy great throne above
The shield and shelter of Thy love.
Author unknown
God, Who dost still the restless foam,
Protect the ones we love at home.
Provide that they should always be
By Thine own grace both safe and free.
O Father, hear us when we pray
For those we love so far away.
Hugh Taylor (date unknown)
O Father, King of earth and sea,
We dedicate this ship to Thee.
In faith we send her on her way;
In faith to Thee we humbly pray:
O hear from Heaven our sailor’s cry
And watch and guard her from on high!
Author/date unknown
And when at length her course is run,
Her work for home and country done,
Of all the souls that in her sailed
Let not one life in Thee have failed;
But hear from Heaven our sailor’s cry,
And grant eternal life on high!
Author/date unknown
(Various authors credited elsewhere)
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Anonymous: Poetry
Because I fly
Because I fly
I laugh more than other men
I look up and see more than they.
I know how the clouds feel,
What its like to have the blue in my lap.
To look down on birds
To feel freedom in a thing called the stick
Who but I can slice between God's billow-legs
And feel them laugh and crash with His step?
Who else has seen the unclimbed peaks?
The rainbow’s secret?
The real reason birds sing?
Because I fly
I envy no man on earth. Amen.
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Anonymous: Poetry
Laudate Dominum (Psalm 117)
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
laudate eum, omnes populi
Quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia ejus,
et veritas Domini manet in aeternum.
Gloria Patri, et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.
Secut erat in principio, et nunc, et simper,
et in saecula saeculorum. Amen
(O praise the Lord, all ye nations;
Praise him, all ye peoples
For his loving kindness has been bestowed upon us,
and the truth of the Lord endures forever.
Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
Captured in music in Vesperae solemnes de Confessore, K 3339 W. A. Mozart)
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Anonymous: Poetry
The Doxology
Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
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Anonymous: Miscellaneous
Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis, voca me cum benedictis.
(Quoted from "Boondock Saints"
When the wicked are confounded, doomed to flames of woe unbounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded.)
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Anonymous: Miscellaneous
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
(You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side and nobody fishes in the middle
A lake in Massachusetts named by the Nipmuck Indians, as interpreted (made up) by a newspaper editor. Also known as Lake Webster.)
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