quotes for softball
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? ~Jules Feiffer
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. ~Author Unknown
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. ~Josh Billings
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. ~Joseph Collins
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. ~Theodor Billroth
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation. ~Emma Goldman, Anarchism
A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. ~Val Saintsbury
If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry. ~Terri Guillemets
The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ~Author Unknown
Unsafe acts will keep you in stitches. ~Author Unknown
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. ~George Kneller
Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown
To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood. ~Gore Vidal
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. ~George Savile