An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
~quote about Tennis by Rod Laver
[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.
~quotes on History by Robert Stinson
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
~sayings on Beauty by George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell
[M]y own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
~quotations on Miscellaneous by J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Papers, 1927
The great men of science are supreme artists.
~quote about good and evil by Martin H. Fischer
Your environment largely shapes your future. Take the time to select one that will shape the kind you’d like to have.
~saying about evil by
A hug is the shortest distance between friends.
~quote about Hugs by Author Unknown
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
~quotes on Writing by Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
Okay, who put a stop payment on my reality check?
~sayings on Reality by Author Unknown
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~quotations on Children by Franklin P. Jones
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
~quote about good and evil by Clifford Stoll
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
~saying about evil by Tony Benn
To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road
~quote about Dance by Thomas Hardy
Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.
~quotes on Safety by Ernest Greenwood
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
~sayings on Civilization by Arnold Toynbee
The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
~quotations on Justice by Tacitus, Annals
You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.
~quote about good and evil by Earl Wilson
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
~saying about evil by J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
~quote about Wise Words by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
~quotes on Peace by James Conrad
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.
~sayings on Quotations by James Alexander Thom
It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood an
~quotations on Arbor Day by Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message
Men may come, men may go, but I go on forever
~quote about good and evil by
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
~saying about evil by Art Buchwald
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
~quote about Faith by Blaise Pascal
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
~quotes on Dogs by Will Rogers
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them
~sayings on Veterans Day by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart
~quotations on Commitment Ceremonies by Author Unknown
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy
~quote about good and evil by Paul Sweeney
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
~saying about evil by Mark Twain
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
~quote about Death by Alice Walker
I am a part of all that I have met.
~quotes on Philosophical by Alfred Lord Tennyson
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
~sayings on Self-Discovery by Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.
~quotations on Feminism by Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year.
~quote about good and evil by Bette Davis
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
~saying about evil by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
~quote about America by Oscar Wilde
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow
~quotes on Death by Charles Brower
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