As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. ~Samuel Johnson
Losing is the great American sin. ~Jerome Holtzman
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. ~Chuck Tanner, quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908
Few great men could pass Personnel. ~Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society, 1956
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. ~Robert Frost The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. ~Robert Frost
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. ~Willie Davis If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ~Henri Amiel
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. ~Author Unknown
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Author Unknown
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~Constanze
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. ~Sigmund Freud
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885
Hatred is one long wait. ~Rene Maran
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. ~Author Unknown
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. ~Simone Weil
Flirtation: attention without intention. ~Max O'Rell, John Bull and His Island
