A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. ~Earl Wilson
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ~Benny Green
Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~Booker T. Washington
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. ~Tim McCarver, who caught all of Steve Carlton's games, 1977
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. ~G.K. Chesterton
Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something. ~P.J. O'Rourke
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ~Mel Brooks
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ~Thomas Henry Huxley
For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth. ~Mary Lou Retton
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving
I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~George Balanchine
The price of wisdom is above rubies. ~Job 28:18
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman
A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care. ~Pat Parelli
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically. ~Albert Einstein
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I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny. ~Letitia Elizabeth Landon
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. ~Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ~John Adams
The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~Alfred Tennyson
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one. ~H.W. Lewis, Technological Risk, 1990
Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. ~Shoseki