Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn't get so much as a glance from me. ~Amanda Vail
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson
Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Jean-Luc Picard, Stardate 42823.2
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ~Frederick L. Knowles
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~S.D. Gordon
I don't think it's possible to skip with a frown on your face.... I'd like to see the world's governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea. ~Sue Irwin, as posted on iskip.com
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. ~Author Unknown
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
Skipping is nature's Prozac. ~Jessi Lane Adams
The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. ~Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941
Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring. ~Jerry Izenberg
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson
That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em. ~Humphrey Bogart
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? ~Horace
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato
Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. ~Library at Thebes, inscription over the door
Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. ~Sebastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman. ~Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~Nicholas Johnson
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., address to Holt Street Baptist Church, 5 December 1955
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. ~Russell B. Long
