The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.

George Cooper

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Francis Bacon

You can always tell someone to go to Hell tomorrow.

Charlie Munger

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

George Eliot

Reasoning against prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.

Mildmay

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

Jim Brown

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

Matthew McConaughey

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley

Don't make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.

Angelique Kerber

Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

Wilhelm Stekel