Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown
Skipping takes me back to less complicated times, without leaving the present! ~Hope Trachtenberg-Fifer, as posted on iskip.com
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. ~Paul-Jean Toulet
A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. ~Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. ~Clarence Day, The Crow's Nest
If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. ~Emerson, Journals, 1827
Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" ~Larry Hardiman
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ~Lord Byron
Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise. ~David Moschella
He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ~Sunshine Magazine
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~Jim Bouton, 1988
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ~Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. ~Author Unknown
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. ~Michael Iapoce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom
Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
History knows that it can wait for more evidence and review its older verdicts; it offers an endless series of courts of appeal, and is ever ready to reopen closed cases. ~William Stubbs
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder. ~Greek Proverb
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence. ~Jeremy S. Anderson
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ~A.A. Milne
