quotes for eyes

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. ~Morris Fishbein



The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics. ~Author Unknown



Reality is not always probable, or likely. ~Jorge Luis Borges



Choices are the hinges of destiny. ~Attributed to both Edwin Markham and Pythagoras



Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. ~Dave Barry



Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? ~Leo Durocher



Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds



I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose. ~Gerald Ford



Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. ~Christopher Morley



Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber



History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ~Thomas Carlyle, On History



Bring the past only if you are going to build from it. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada



You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. ~Aldous Huxley



The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. ~Edward Jenner



Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ~Garry Trudeau



Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust



I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev, just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. ~Ronald Reagan, 1985



Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson