We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding
Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. ~Edgar A. Shoaff
No one ever excused his way to success. ~Dave Del Dotto
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
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ~H.G. Wells, Bealby, 1915
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. ~Wendy Kaminer
"Independence"... is middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. ~G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, 1912
Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. ~Bob Parsons
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ~Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted, 14 August 1966
The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. ~Neil Postman
Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. ~Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. ~Lord Mancroft
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. ~Doug Horton
Do not nurse a kid who wears braces. ~Author Unknown, "Nursing Mother Principle"
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. ~Washington Irving, History of New York
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ~Joe Clark
We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes. ~Author Unknown
We need - and should encourage and honour - not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. ~Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University
Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. ~Author Unknown
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