Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
~quote about Civilization by Voltaire, letter to Count Schomberg, 31 August 1769
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
~quotes on Happiness by Norm Papernick
Life's too short for chess.
~sayings on Games by Henry James Byron, Our Boys, 1874
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
~quotations on Prosperity by Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
~quote from the movie love and basketball by Hannah Whitall Smith
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
~saying about from the movie basketball by Martin H. Fischer
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~quote about Age by Mark Twain, Following the Equator
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
~quotes on Gossip by Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1735
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
~sayings on Marriage by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit.
~quotations on Clothing by Edward Tivnan
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
~quote from the movie love and basketball by Minor White
The time is always right to do what is right
~saying about from the movie basketball by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
~quote about Unemployment by Robert Farrar Capon
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
~quotes on Hate by Karl Kraus
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time
~sayings on Birthday Sayings by Jean Paul Richter
If you don’t ask because you might be refused, you’ve already refused yourself.
~quotations on Success by Nisandeh Neta
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
~quote from the movie love and basketball by Nomar Garciaparra
The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology.
~saying about from the movie basketball by Author Unknown
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
~quote about Imagination by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
~quotes on Attitude by Unknown
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
~sayings on Self-Control by Friedrich Nietzsche
If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
~quotations on Perspective by Author Unknown
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
~quote from the movie love and basketball by Proverb
Be kindEveryone you meet is fighting a hard battle
~saying about from the movie basketball by Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death
~quote about Death by Betty Bender
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
~quotes on Integrity by Alan Simpson
Man would be otherwise. That's the essence of the specifically human.
~sayings on Being Yourself by Antonio Machado
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
~quotations on Love by Pablo Picasso
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minute its hot and the next minute its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
~quote from the movie love and basketball by Anita Loos
How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
~saying about from the movie basketball by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
If you owe the bank a hundred dollars, you've got a problem. If you owe the bank three trillion dollars, the bank's got a problem.
~quote about Financial by BoingBoing
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!
~quotes on Dancing by Constanze
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
~sayings on Being Yourself by Homer
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
~quotations on Love by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
~quote from the movie love and basketball by John F. Kennedy
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
~saying about from the movie basketball by Hugh Prather
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
~quote about Honesty by Oliver Wendell
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
~quotes on Violence by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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