Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ~H.L. Mencken
If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me? ~Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well. ~Art Rosenbaum
You heard about the Chinese godfather? He made them an offer they couldn't understand. ~Jason Cahill, The Sopranos, "Meadowlands," original airdate 31 January 1999, spoken by the character Corrado "Junior" Soprano
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ~Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive. ~Author Unknown
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines. ~Virginia Wade
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~Marcus Aurelius
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it. ~Roger Bannister
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. ~Tay Hohoff
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. ~Author Unknown
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. ~Helmut Walcha
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship. ~Richard C. Cabot
Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her. ~Val Doonican
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ~James Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy, 1973
Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax. ~Philip Dow
If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. ~Nadine Stair
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half-thought of it ourselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Few great men could pass personnel. ~Paul Goodman
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ~Oscar Wilde
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