Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. ~Carl Gustav Jung
I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thanks, Charlene)
The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it. ~Author Unknown
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993
Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown
A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. ~Author unknown, from an editorial in New York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. ~Douglas Adams
Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ~Lillian Hellman I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. ~Katharine Whitehorn
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. ~Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic, 1963
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them. ~Elbert Hubbard
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. ~Mary Hirsch
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~Robert Benchley
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson
The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~James Cook, 1779
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ~George Herbert
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. ~Robert Gordon Menzies
Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ~H.H. "Breaker" Morant
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men... ~Job 4:13
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. ~Hermann Ebbinghaus
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