People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring
~quote about Baseball by Rogers Hornsby
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the naturals, the ones who somehow know how to teach.
~quotes on Teachers by Peter Drucker
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
~sayings on Imagination by Simone Weil
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
~quotations on Writing by Leo Tolstoy
What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public.
~funny weather sayings by From the movie Tommy Boy
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
~saying about weather by Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundis), Letters
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~quote about Gifts by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~quotes on Freedom by Thomas Paine
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers
~sayings on Patriot Day by François Fénelon
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it
~quotations on Dreams by Greg Anderson
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
~funny weather sayings by André Gide
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.
~saying about weather by William Hazlitt
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart
~quote about Adversity by Socrates
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
~quotes on Prayer by Matthew Henry
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
~sayings on Sex by W. Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children
~quotations on Mothers Day by Sam Levenson
These are the days when a man grows into the man he's gonna be for the rest of his life.
~funny weather sayings by
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~saying about weather by Judy Garland
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.
~quote about Parenting by Marilyn Penland
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
~quotes on Consumerism by Eric Hoffer
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
~sayings on Grandparents by Gene Perret
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
~quotations on Environment by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.
~funny weather sayings by Wilson Mizner
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
~saying about weather by Aesop
Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.
~quote about Books Reading by Bulstrode Whitlock
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
~quotes on Angels by Lydia M. Child
Don't be dismayed at goodbyesA farewell is necessary before you can meet againAnd meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends
~sayings on Goodbye by Richard Bach
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
~quotations on Labor by Frank A. Clark
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
~funny weather sayings by Attributed to both Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
~saying about weather by Sally Field
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
~quote about Psychology by Author Unknown
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
~quotes on Books Reading by Chinese Saying
Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.
~sayings on Sex by Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action
That sucks
~quotations on Goals by james harriet
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
~funny weather sayings by W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
~saying about weather by Lionel Kauffman
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
~quote about Attitude by Adlai Stevenson
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
~quotes on Growth by Dale Carnegie
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