arthur ashe quotes

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. ~Dan Millman



Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ~Immanuel Kant



Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. ~Leo Buscaglia



Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



How do people make it through life without a sister? ~Sara Corpening



Trigonometry is a sine of the times. ~Author Unknown



In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam



College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. ~Elbert Hubbard



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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali



We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. ~Alistair Cooke



It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them. ~Rupert Hart-Davis



Wimps lift weights, cheerleaders lift people. ~Author Unknown



A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~John B. Priestly



No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~Martin H. Fischer



Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht



Capital punishment: The income tax. ~Jeff Hayes



There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. ~J.J. Greene