funny monday morning quotes

There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe. ~Joseph W. Beach



The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ~Herman Melville, White Jacket



Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ~William Shakespeare



Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~Marcelene Cox



No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ~Benjamin Disraeli



When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ~Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates



I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday. ~Mike Morley



I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. ~Adlai E. Stevenson



Sports is human life in microcosm. ~Howard Cosell



Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato



The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy. ~Uvavnuk



Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs - by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. ~Alistair Cooke



Everybody's 12 years old in an apple orchard. ~Rachael Ray, Rachael Ray Show, while making autumn stew, original airdate 11 October 2007



The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~C.P. Snow



The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. ~Aesop, Fables



You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. ~Albert Einstein



I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ~Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942 I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ~Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942



Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb



If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. ~Tommy Bolt



Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. ~Evelyn Cunningham