quotes and sayings on life

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. ~Frank Wilczek



John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him. ~Nick Faldo, on John Daly



Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. ~Joshua L. Liebman



It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~Mick Jagger



As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. ~John Smith



Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society



Be a blood and organ donor. All it costs is a little love. ~Author Unknown



I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown



To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night. ~Paul Simon, "A Poem on the Underground Wall"



One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. ~G.M. Weilacher



Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ~Samuel Johnson



The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley



The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ~Pam Brown



For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ~Romans 7:19



To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)



I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith



The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. ~Martin H. Fischer



Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed. ~Billie Jean King