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Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths. ~Author Unknown



It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951



People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. ~Edith Wharton People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917



Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~John Wain



There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964



People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy. ~Bob Hope



Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967



We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. ~Francis A. Walker



The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ~Adlai Stevenson



Well hath he been called one of the architects of civilization. ~Newell Dwight Hillis



True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn



Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards. ~Eugene Scott



We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961



The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. ~Eric Sevareid, "The Press and the People," television program, 1959



Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown



Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein



Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau



Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye. ~Terry Hanson



Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. ~Author Unknown



There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist. ~G.C. Lichtenberg