Quitting a resolution is like letting fall a ball of string. A single fall unwinds many turns that must be rewound.
~quote about Attitude by
All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.
~quotes on Fishing by Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969
In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heartThat fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished
~sayings on Columbus Day by Charles Kendall Adams
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
~quotations on Life by Luigi Pirandello
Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.
~quotes on friendship and saying good bye by M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
~saying about friendship bye by Sir Thomas Browne
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
~quote about God by Harry Emerson Fosdick
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
~quotes on Society by Marcus Aurelius
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
~sayings on Happiness by Kitty O'Neill Collins
People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.
~quotations on Fishing by Ed Zern, 1947
Gardens are a form of autobiography.
~quotes on friendship and saying good bye by Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
~saying about friendship bye by Anthony Robbins
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
~quote about Speaking by Ann Landers
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~quotes on Friendship by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
~sayings on Self Improvement by Buddha
Have a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
~quotations on Fishing by Zenna Schaffer
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
~quotes on friendship and saying good bye by Heywood Broun
Science is simply common sense at its best.
~saying about friendship bye by Thomas Huxley
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
~quote about Self-Control by Vida D. Scudder
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
~quotes on Poetry by Novalis
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
~sayings on Running by Martin Mull
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
~quotations on Excuses by Jules Renard
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
~quotes on friendship and saying good bye by Gloria Steinem
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.
~saying about friendship bye by Chuck Clark
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.
~quote about Integrity by Author Unknown
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
~quotes on Love by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.
~sayings on Advertising by Colin McEnroe
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
~quotations on Jewelry by Benjamin Franklin
You never know what you've got until it's gone
~quotes on friendship and saying good bye by Author Unknown
The sea hath no king but God alone.
~saying about friendship bye by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.
~quote about Teenagers by Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
~quotes on Happiness by Mildred Barthel
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
~sayings on Media Journalism by Cyril Connolly
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
~quotations on Smiles by Charles Reade
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
~quotes on friendship and saying good bye by Reinhold Niebuhr
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
~saying about friendship bye by Charles Frankel
For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye.
~quote about Libraries by Curse Against Book Stealers, Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.
~quotes on Education by Martin H. Fischer
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