Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators. ~George Orwell
Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? ~Rumi
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~Author Unknown
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimmer
You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going. ~Author Unknown
Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. ~Author Unknown
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. ~Anna Quindlen
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. ~Martin H. Fischer
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. ~Art Buchwald, "Adding Insult to Injury," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. ~Lucimar Santos de Lima
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. ~George Santayana
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. ~Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ~P.J. O'Rourke
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~Felix Cohen
While many minority groups are the target for prejudice... and discrimination... in our society, few persons face this hostility without the support and acceptance of their family as do many gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth. ~Virginia Uribe and Karen Harbeck
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer
They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it. ~Tommy Bolt, about the tempers of modern players
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ~John F. Kennedy
Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. ~Frederick Douglas
