The stars incline, but do not impel. (Robert Anson Heinlein)
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster. (Curt Simmons)
It's deja vu all over again (Yogi Berra)
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. (Thucyclides)
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. (Lao Tzu)
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. (Will Rogers)
It ain't over 'till it's over. (Yogi Berra)
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give. (Roosevelt, Eleanor)
He's a real loser. He moved into a new neighborhood and got run over by the Welcome Wagon. (Red Buttons)
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. (Joseph P. Thompson)
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. (A Bartlett Giamatti)
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. (Henry James)
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. (Alice Walker)
I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you. (Grace Fallow Norton)
There is a woman at the begining of all great things. (Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine)
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. (Ambrose Gwinett Bierce)
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. (Samuel Johnson)
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. (Joyce)
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. (Robertson Davies)