Where do you go to get anorexia? ~Shelley Winters
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ~Peter F. Drucker
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving evidence of the fact. ~George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. ~La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. ~Anonymous Teacher If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. ~Cicero
People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped. ~Author Unknown
If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. ~Confucius
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one. ~Chuck Tanner
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. ~George Bernard Shaw
Never give in... never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force... never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~Winston Churchill
After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. ~W.C. Fields
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. ~A.K. Best
Oaths are but words, and words but wind. ~Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Hudribas
Elizabeth: Yes, so they could go about persecuting the Indians.
Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. ~J.B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1928
It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. ~Joe Kinnear, comparing finances and resources in high-dollar and low-dollar sports teams
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness. ~Rig Veda