I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ~Jean Cocteau
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. ~Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown
Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Never make a companion equal to a brother. ~Hesiod
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. ~Marv Levy
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. ~Henry S. Haskins
The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in." ~Dave Beard (@Raqhun)
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. ~Author Unknown
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850
If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. ~Stephen Girard
No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. ~Elbert Hubbard
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. ~Clifton Fadiman
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies. ~Alonzo Clark
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. ~John 3:8
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~Baltasar Gracian
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear,
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. ~Proverbs 11:24
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