Quotes and Sayings

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

Jerry Coleman

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

T. L. Cuyle

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.

Quentin

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed.

Zalman Stern

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.

George Washington

My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish.

Jamie Ann Hunt

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Hellen Kelle

He who comes first, eats first. Familiar as First come first served.

Eike von Repkow

Imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.

Unknown

Handguns are a public - Health problem.

Josh Sugarmann

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Kelle

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Sow an act... reap a habit Sow a habit... reap a character Sow a character... reap a destiny.

George Dana Boardman

I? m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2004

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.

Terry Cohen

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx)

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far - Spread magazine, rules the country.

Learned Hand

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

George Meredith

If at first you dont succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Wendy Northcutt, Darwin Awards - Literature

There are four kinds of Homicide felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Author Unknown

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

William James

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Carole Burnett

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

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