quotes about him

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. ~Oscar Wilde



To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb



You know what they say: You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks. ~Trey Parker & Matt Stone, South Park



When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal. ~Mac O'Grady



A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility. ~Billie Jean King, about tennis



The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children. ~Louis Johannot



I enjoy mowing the lawn, it relaxes me. It gets me outdoors, it's good exercise, the freshly cut grass smells great, and the engine is loud enough that I'm sure no one else can hear my thoughts - or intrude upon them. ~Astrid Alauda



I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone



Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~Bern Williams



Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about! ~Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt



If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson



Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897



We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. ~John Henry Newman



Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~Dick Cavett



The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. ~African Proverb



A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown



Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction. ~Margaret Visser



It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ~Harry S Truman



Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ~Joseph Epstein