quotes for boys who are players

Modern man is just ancient man... with way better electronics. ~Author unknown, "A Short History of Breakfast," from a Jack in the Box tray liner, 2006



Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before... ~Philippians 3:13



Cricket is baseball on valium. ~Robin Williams



Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. ~Stephen Jay Gould



Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ~Author Unknown



There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ~Josh Billings



Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1735



The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness. ~Kahlil Gibran



One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh



In solitude, where we are least alone. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage



The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire



Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. ~Jim Davis, "Garfield" (Please note: In its original context, this is NOT about vegetarianism)



If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying



I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. ~Susan Strasberg



Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ~Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses



To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ~Samuel Johnson



If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. ~David Belasco If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard



A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ~Helen Rowland