There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. ~Author Unknown
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. ~Nomar Garciaparra
Plagiarism: literary theft; when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own; to avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote.
If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley
I trade sweat for strength. I trade doubt for belief. I trade cheerleading for nothing. ~Author Unknown
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. ~Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots. ~Author Unknown
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. ~Jean Kerr
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ~J.K. Rowling
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde
Marriage ...the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. ~Katharine Whitehorn
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain
My sons think it's a fireman's pole, but I forgot to cut a hole through the ground into the kitchen. ~Pamela Anderson
Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed. Methinks it is like a weasel. It is backed like a weasel. Or like a whale. Very like a whale. ~William Shakespeare
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ~Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950
Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. ~Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. ~Anton Chekhov
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. ~William Shakespeare Poor Popeye. If only he had eaten purslane instead of spinach, he wouldn't have had so much trouble with the bad guy, Pluto. ~Jim O'Brien
The more I see of men, the more I like dogs. ~Madame de Stael
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
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