Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off. ~Michael Nelson
Golf is not just an exercise; it's an adventure, a romance... a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined. ~Harold Segall
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ~Lincoln Steffens
To live is not breathing it is action. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest
I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice. ~Kurt Rambis, on drug testing
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. ~Quentin Bell
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" ~Howard Ikemoto
Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. ~Author Unknown
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. ~John Moffat
Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding. ~John Hopkins, Squash: A Joyful Game, 1980
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. ~Matthew 8:20
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~Paul Rodriguez
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus
The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect! ~Charles N. Barnard
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1900
To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear. ~T.A. Sachs
People ask why I skip and I give the incomparable reason of "why not?" ~Author unknown, as posted on iskip.com
Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements - a job, a meal and a woman. ~Martin H. Fischer
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. ~William Hazlitt, Table Talk
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ~Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race
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