Jun 27, 2010
Quotes by Mark Twain
"Golf is a good walk spoiled".
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen".
Quotes by William Temple
"Personally, I have always looked on cricket as organised loafing".
Quotes by Phillip Stubbes
"Football...causeth fighting, brawling,contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and grat effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth".
Quotes by Jock Stein
"We do have the greatest fans in the world, but I've never seen a fan score ... Read More
Jun 20, 2010
Quotes by Mark Twain
"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. let us economize it. When in doubt, tell the truth".
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear".
Quotes by Susan Sontag
"The truth is always discovered by someone else, it loses something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is".
Quotes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"When truth is discovered by ... Read More
Jun 14, 2010
Quotes by Henry Clay Work
"Father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the steeple strikes one".
Quotes by Virginia Woolf
"Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England".
Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
"The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason".
Quotes by Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse
"It is no use telling me ... Read More
Jun 7, 2010
Quotes by Horace Walpole
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due".
Quotes by Voltaire
"Democracy seems suitable only to a very little country. The pleasure of governing must certainly be exquisite if we may judge from the vast numbers who are eager to be concerned with it.In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other".
Quotes by Willard ... Read More
May 8, 2010
Quotes by Herbert George Wells
"I don't 'old with Wealth. What is Wealth? Labour robbed out of the poor".
Quotes by George Washington
"It is not a custom with me to keep money to look at".
Quotes by Artemus Ward
"Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with".
Quotes by Virgil or Vergil
"Auri sacra fames. (Accursed hunger for gold)".
Quotes by Mark Twain
"Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's , I ... Read More
Mar 7, 2010
Quotes by William Butler Yeats
"Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still, That I may stay a sober man, Although I drink my fill".
Quotes by William Wordsworth
"And homeless near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. Drink, pretty creature, drink".
Quotes by Virginia Woolf
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well".
Quotes by William Carlos Williams
"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast".
Quotes by Izaak ... Read More
Feb 2, 2010
Quotes by William Wordsworth
"I have travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then, What love I bore to thee. He travelled here, he travelled there;- But not the value of a hair, Was head or heart the better".
Quotes by William Carlos Williams
"Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them".
Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
"Commuter - one who spends his life, In riding to and from his ... Read More