armor knuckle ring

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb



Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ~Jean Sibelius



All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon. ~Voltaire, Jeannot et Colin



A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew



I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ~John Cage



Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno



The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ~Leo Aikman



I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard



Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? ~M.C. Escher



Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. ~Author Unknown



Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar



Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. ~Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel, 1572



Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. ~William Wordsworth



How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore. ~Anonymous Wintu Woman



Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. ~William Shakespeare



A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. ~David Brenner



Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957



The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it. ~Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness



No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. ~Cyril Connolly

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