Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ~Francis Bacon
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ~George Santayana
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. ~Catherine Hall
In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. ~Diego Marchi
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it. ~Luke Salisbury
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope
In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. ~Stephen Phillips
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. ~June Jordan
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence. ~Jeremy S. Anderson
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1
The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~Author Unknown
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. ~Ken Harrelson
Life is about using the whole box of crayons. ~RuPaul
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. ~W. Migner
If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it. ~Dick Allen
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ~Buddha
It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ~Author Unknown
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860
If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane. ~Author Unknown