In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team. ~Luis Suarez
Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner. ~Stephen Baker
A question asked in a Surrey school exam went: "Why do cocks crow early every morning?" A twelve-year-old replied: "My dad says they have to make the most of it while the hens are asleep." ~Quoted in the Peterborough Daily Telegraph, 1983
God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler. ~Author Unknown
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy, Look, 10 January 1955
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. ~Bernie S. Siegel
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ~John Fowles
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. ~Stephen Fry
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. ~Author Unknown
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. ~Allen Nevins
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot
Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. ~Robert Kirby
All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden. ~Terri Guillemets
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
Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. ~Aaron Howard
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ~George Bernard Shaw
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King
No man is above the law and no man below it. ~Theodore Roosevelt
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
It starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink. ~Author Unknown
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~John Lubbock
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