In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
~quote about Science by John Reader, Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man
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~quotes on Patriot Day by The Wonder Years An optimist is the human personification of spring.
~sayings on Optimism Pessimism by Susan J. Bissonette Anyone can carry his burden for one day. Anyone can be pleasant, courteous, and friendly for one day. And that continued is all there is to life.
~quotations on Friendship by No road is long with good company.
~inspirational quotes poems by Turkish Proverb I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
~saying about poems by Danny McGoorty
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~quote about Italian Sayings by Ralph Parlette The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.
~quotes on Wise Words by Charles DuBois You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~sayings on Mistakes by Colette Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction
~quotations on Weddings by Antoine de Saint-Exupery You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
~inspirational quotes poems by Denise Levertov Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
~saying about poems by Robert Orben Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
~quote about Carpe Diem by John Henry Cardinal Newman I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
~quotes on Smiles by Author Unknown He who has health has hope: he who has hope, has everything
~sayings on Proverbs by Proverb Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~quotations on Helping by Buddha The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
~inspirational quotes poems by George F. Will Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off you?
~saying about poems by Flash Rosenberg Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
~quote about Tennis by Virginia Graham, Say Please, 1949 Education is difficult and expensive. Whatever it costs, it’s cheaper than ignorance.
~quotes on Self Improvement by If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
~sayings on Humility by Welsh Proverb Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
~quotations on Success by Napoleon Hill Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
~inspirational quotes poems by Jimmy Lyons History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.
~saying about poems by Jacob Burckhardt I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.
~quote about Sports by Sam Snead, about golf Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
~quotes on Nature by Juvenal, Satires By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.
~sayings on Human Rights by Edwin Markham If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation?
~quotations on Boss Day by Author Unknown As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
~inspirational quotes poems by George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century Ameri I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right
~saying about poems by Lee Hendrie Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love
~quote about I Love You by Albert Einstein The most important political office is that of the private citizen
~quotes on Election Day by Louis Brandeis The last Christian died on the cross.
~sayings on Religion by Friedrich Nietzsche Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
~quotations on Baseball by Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 13 April 1990 It's amazing, astounding, awe-inspiring, breathtaking, extraordinary, hair-raising, heart-stirring, magnificent, marvelous, miraculous, moving, overwhelming spectacular, spine-tingling, striking, stunning, stupefying, stupendous, wonderful..............
~inspirational quotes poems by Yousef The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
~saying about poems by E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973 Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
~quote about Hawww by William Wordsworth A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
~quotes on Society by Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953
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