bob marley quotes and sayings

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. ~Chris Van Allsburg



Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ~Ambrose Bierce



Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw



Climb a tree - it gets you closer to heaven. ~Author Unknown



We speak little if not egged on by vanity. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. ~Margaret Atwood



History is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. ~Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History



Our whole life is solving puzzles. ~Erno Rubik



Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ~Saint Augustine



In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ~Martin H. Fischer



Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? ~Sylvia Plath, "Mystic"



For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. ~Psalms 90:4



It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ~Mark Twain



You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning. ~Bob Sarlette



Respect yourself and others will respect you. ~Confucius



Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897



Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles



Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~Marcelene Cox



We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard



It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. ~Niccolo Machiavelli