quotes on learning

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown



Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner



A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward. ~Earl of Chesterfield



Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. ~Franklin Adams



The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. ~Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 1953



No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras



Curling rocks! ~Saying of the sport



Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651



Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright



Commit to be fit. ~Author Unknown



The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did. ~Robert Browning, A History of Golf



Lisa: "Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?"



Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws. ~Rick Wise, 1974



Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what's that one thing?"



An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. ~Herbert Spencer



He only salutes the flag with one finger. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, about Bart Simpson



Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else. ~Alison Rose Levy, "An Ancient Cure for Modern Life," Yoga Journal, Jan/Feb 2002



There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ~Mark Twain