muhammad ali quotes

The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake! ~Martin H. Fischer



Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain some sort of message to be decoded... ~Dennis Elwell



The answer to poverty is not charity, the solution to abortion is not laws, the key to saving the environment is not recycling. As Thoreau so wisely noted, we must strike at the root, not hack at the branches. ~Tere Saudavel



One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. ~Lord Byron



If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how? ~Joan Baez, "What Would You Do If....?"



I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god. ~Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, 1977



One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ~Bertrand Russell



Let's have some new cliches. ~Samuel Goldwyn



Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator



A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~John Muir



It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. ~Oscar Wilde



What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ~Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem



Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength. ~Terri Guillemets



Keep your bike in good repair: motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking. ~Author Unknown



Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin



The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona. ~Will Rogers



According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. ~John A. Logan



Congratulations: Babies Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ~Boris Marshalov



Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. ~Lawrence Duncan