Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~quotes on Music by Ezra Pound We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
~sayings on Technology by Carl Sagan The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
~quotations on Property by Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
~inspirational graduation quote by Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912 The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
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hEart has its own reason which eyes cannot see..
~quote about Love by If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings
~quotes on April Fool's Day by Welsh Proverb If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
~sayings on Changes by Saint Augustine There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
~quotations on Fathers by John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994 Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~inspirational graduation quote by Confucius A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
~saying about graduation by Lois Wyse The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
~quote about Driving by Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
~quotes on Hawww by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishnessIt's the men who are discriminated againstThey can't bear childrenAnd no one's likely to do anything about that
~sayings on Mothers Day by Golda Meir Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
~quotations on Philosophy by Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
~inspirational graduation quote by Ernest Hemingway How do people make it through life without a sister?
~saying about graduation by Sara Corpening Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.
~quote about Alcohol by Mark Twain, Note-Book, 1935 The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
~quotes on Conformity by Foe Ancis The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
~sayings on Peace by William J. Clinton, 1997 Woman didn't get the short end of every stick. At least God gave us handheld massaging shower heads.
~quotations on Women by Rhann Morgan Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
~inspirational graduation quote by Bill Veeck The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
~saying about graduation by Calvin Trillin An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
~quote about Writing by Chateaubriand, Le Génie du Christianisme, 1802 You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~quotes on Imagination by Mark Twain Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
~sayings on Living by Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889 Man alone, of all god’s creatures, can change himself for the better
~quotations on Happiness by The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
~inspirational graduation quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~saying about graduation by Mark Twain Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
~quote about Love by Fyodor Dostoevski My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
~quotes on Money by Errol Flynn Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence.
~sayings on Marriage by Author Unknown A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses
~quotations on Drinking by H. L. Mencken I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
~inspirational graduation quote by Author Unknown Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.
~saying about graduation by Shana Alexander The least lack of discipline starts to erode our
self-esteem.
~quote about Self Discipline by Jim Rohn The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
~quotes on Mothers by Henry Ward Beecher
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