tears in eyes quotes

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ~Niels Bohr



For a dreamer, night's the only time of day. ~From the movie Newsies



The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate



Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich



Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~Voltaire



And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know? ~Carl Sandburg, Good Morning America, 1928



But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus



Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. ~Maya Patel



This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ~Joseph Conrad



In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. ~Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906



After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. ~James Howell



The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981



"After all, golf is only a game," said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying. ~P.G. Wodehouse, Order by Golf, 1922



A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. ~Henry David Thoreau



The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does. ~Phil Woosnam, 1974



If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. ~David Belasco If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard



No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ~Aristotle



If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ~H.L. Mencken



Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it. ~Lord Byron



Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ~Francis Bacon

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