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Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. ~Wilson Mizner



An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau



Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar. ~George Lundberg



We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. ~Bill Bryson



It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. ~J.J. Bentley



They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken. ~Raymond Floyd



We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. ~Herbert Hoover



Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. ~Eugene Ionesco



Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ~Ovid



A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ~e.e. cummings



Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ~Eric Hoffer



When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. ~Albert Einstein



When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James



Extract: a passage from a literary work.



If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. ~k.d. lang



We are all manufacturers - some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses. ~Author Unknown



Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~John Dryden



The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ~Derek Walcott