Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~Ansel Adams
Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. ~Author Unknown
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~Mark Twain
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter X "The Leech and His Patient"
A knuckleball is a curve ball that doesn't give a damn. ~Jimmy Cannon
He guided the passions of others, because he was master of his own. ~Ebenezer Grant Marsh
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~Oscar Wilde
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way. ~David Carradine
On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God. ~Martin H. Fischer
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. ~Feodor Dostoevski
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become. ~Mary McGrory
America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples. ~Aurora Raigne
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ~Edward Abbey
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? ~Rita Mae Brown
Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient. ~Bo Jackson
After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy. ~John Pierce
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~Fran Lebowitz
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~Clarence Darrow
The finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end. ~Laurence Malone
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais
