It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling. ~Mark Twain
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish. ~James Gorman
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. ~Martin Golding
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood. ~Johannes Jensen
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~George Sand
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ~Adlai Stevenson
Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts. Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all. This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water. ~Author Unknown
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. ~Simon Rattle
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. ~G.K. Chesterton
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. ~Diane Ackerman
I'm in shape. Round is a shape... isn't it? ~Author Unknown
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ~Sherwood Anderson I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ~Sherwood Anderson
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley
Unfortunately, it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric hues. ~Wendell H. Stephenson
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. ~Michael Iapoce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. ~Anais Nin
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~Frederick Buechner
