The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on
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I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.
~quotes on Grandparents by Gene Perret I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
~sayings on Exercise by Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
~quotations on Happiness by Ayn Rand Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
~famous wise sayings by Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968 Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
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Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.
~quote about Poker by Anthony Holden Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
~quotes on Age by Robert Southey, The Doctor Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~sayings on Love by Peter Ustinov Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~quotations on Courage by Plato He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
~famous wise sayings by John Ray The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
~saying about wise by Lucretius The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
~quote about Writing by William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958 It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
~quotes on Sex by Marge Piercy You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things...
~sayings on Nature by Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, Birds - And a Caution (Thank you, Corinne.) One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
~quotations on Speaking by Will Durant If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
~famous wise sayings by Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849 Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
~saying about wise by Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ
~quote about Columbus Day by John Fiske The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
~quotes on Jewelry by Salvador Dalí Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.
~sayings on Perspective by H.L. Mencken I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
~quotations on Smoking by Arturo Toscanini Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.
~famous wise sayings by Amanda Baxter They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.
~saying about wise by Tommy Bolt, about the tempers of modern players Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
~quote about Thrift by Lord Rosebery If you're going through hell, keep going
~quotes on Adversity by Winston Churchill How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
~sayings on God by Woody Allen, Selections from the Allen Notebooks, Without Feathers, 1975 Our country, right or wrongWhen right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right
~quotations on Patriotic by Carl Schurz One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
~famous wise sayings by Liz Smith If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.
~saying about wise by Dick Allen, on artificial turf, 1970 Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
~quote about Wisdom by Doug Larson Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
~quotes on Politics by Charles Krauthammer I get by with a little help from my friends
~sayings on Friends by John Lennon No one knows what they'll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
~quotations on Perspective by Joan Baez, What Would You Do If....? Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
~famous wise sayings by George Eliot If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
~saying about wise by Phyllis Battelle I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
~quote about Housework by C.E. Cowman I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
~quotes on Food by Woody Allen
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