We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. (Jean Toomer)
I think a new, different kind of bowling should be 'carpet bowling.' It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood. I don't know why we should do this, but my God, we've got to try something (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. (G. K. Chesterton)
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. (Augustus Hare)
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. (Milan Kundera)
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. (Lewis Carroll)
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi)
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour. (Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill)
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow. (Ruth Gordon)
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. (William Wordsworth)
Same old slippers, Same old rice, Same old glimpse of paradise. (William James Lampton)
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare (Blair Houghton)
Fall seven times, stand up eight. (Japanese Proverb)
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. (G. K. Chesterton)
Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with. (American Proverb)
Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. (D. H. Lawrence)
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)