Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.
Yogi Berra
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
I didn't say the things I said.
Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.
That's his style of hitting . If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
The world is whole beyond human knowing.
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
Bhagavad Gita
On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.
When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Samuel Butler (poet), The Analog
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.
John Adams
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
Sean O'Casey, Sunset and Evening
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melanc
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much.
Source Unknown
Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
I just graduated and already I'm way behind.
If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.
Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.
It's the last inch that counts.
If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want !
Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.
About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..
Two parts of empathy: Skill (tip of iceberg) and Attitude (mass of the iceberg).
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.
The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.
Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
Speak well of your enemies... you made them.
One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.
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