For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. ~Ted Morgan
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. ~John Bunyan
May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah. ~Author Unknown
Hate is misguided love. ~Author Unknown
History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~Oscar Wilde
Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. ~D.M. Thomas
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The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles. ~Alfred E. Crawley, The Book of the Ball, 1913 The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. ~Henry Tilney
What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree? ~Logan Pearsall Smith
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XV "Hester and Pearl"
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ~Marcus Aurelius
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. ~Thomas Macaulay
If... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. ~Catherine Aird
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
Curling... when you can tell your lady that she is wide without fear of getting whacked upside the head with a cast iron pan. Or proclaim out loud that she is too heavy, knowing that your comment has been heard by countless bystanders. Where you can order your better half to sweep, sweep hard, and having the never before seen result of actually seeing her gutting it out just to please you! For in curling, you are the king of the house! ~Author Unknown
A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~Terri Guillemets
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. ~P.G. Wodehouse, A Mixed Threesome, 1922
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators. ~George Orwell
No one could give her such soothing and sensible consolation as this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she felt the movement of his lips and the snuffling of his tiny nose. ~Leo Tolstoy
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