He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ~Sunshine Magazine
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe
A human life is a story told by God. ~Hans Christian Andersen
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~Duke Ellington
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez
Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring. ~Terri Guillemets
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure. ~Author Unknown
I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson
To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ~Jean Sibelius
Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. ~Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891
Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo
Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. ~Charles Kingsley Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. ~Peter Dunne, 1992
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. ~Martin Luther
This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish. ~Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall
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