A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it. ~From Cool Runnings
I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there. ~Bob Hope, about his golfing
There are more doctors in a single North Shore medical building than in one entire West Side ghetto. ~Jack Starr
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world? ~Denis Johnston, The Brazen Horn
A canter is a cure for every evil. ~Benjamin Disraeli
We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down. ~Robert Sweetgall
Quilters never grow old, they just go to pieces. ~Author Unknown
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
To reject the word is to reject the human search. ~Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. ~Woodrow Wilson
Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian
The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. ~Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 1953
I wish I were a white crayon, that way no one could use me. ~Author Unknown
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. ~Alice Thomas Ellis
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. ~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. ~Gene Roddenberry
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? ~Zsa Zsa Gabor
What I like about camping is you can get really dirty. Either you're all by yourself, so no one else sees you, or everyone you're with is just as dirty as you are, so nobody cares. ~Anonymous former Boy Scout, quoted in Highs! Over 150 Ways to Feel Really, Really Good Without Alcohol or Other Drugs by Alex J. Packer
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. ~George Wald, "The Origin of Optical Activity," Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1975
It is not a fragrant world. ~Raymond Chandler
A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. ~Jimmy Cannon
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~Dennis Gabor Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com
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