You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. ~Robert Ingersoll, Individuality
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Author Unknown
Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. ~Aldous Huxley
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes. ~Author Unknown
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. ~William Sharp, The Lonely Hunter
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. ~Lord Halifax
Skipping is a form of flying. ~Jessi Lane Adams
The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts. ~Hermann M. Biggs
It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~Groucho Marx
If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him. ~Bob Hope
I may be a twin but I'm one of a kind. ~Author Unknown
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. ~A. Kerr
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good. ~Paul Westphal
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ~W. Somerset Maugham
When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes. ~J. Andrew Helt
Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979
History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed. ~Louis Fischer
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~Henry Kissinger
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ~Georg Hegel
