Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. ~Abba Eban
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws. ~Rick Wise, 1974
The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions. ~Arthur Bloch
Death is the surest calculation that can be made. ~Ludwig B�chner, Force and Matter
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ~William Arthur Ward
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ~Amanda Bradley
A lot of top guys have dark moods. That Winston Churchill drank a quart of brandy before breakfast. Napoleon, he was a moody fuck, too. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Silvio Dante
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman
That's not serious; it's just human. ~Jerry Kopke
You can never predict when that unknown torpedo will come out of the dark and smash the price of a stock. ~Ralph Seger
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. ~Ken Jenkins
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. ~May Sarton
Our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black, and white - and we're all precious in God's sight. ~Jesse Jackson, speech at Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 July 1984
"Carpe Diem" does not mean "fish of the day." ~Author Unknown
Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success. ~Garrett Hazel
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. ~Bill Vaughn
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? ~Katherine Mansfield
The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. ~Cecil Beaton
I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
There are some remedies worse than the disease. ~Publilius Syrus
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