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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ~Red Auerbach



"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy



One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness. ~Towards a Quaker View of Sex, 1964



We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. ~Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu



The most important political office is that of the private citizen. ~Louis Brandeis



Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



People ask why I skip and I give the incomparable reason of "why not?" ~Author unknown, as posted on iskip.com



Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays



Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ~Peter De Vries



Right is more precious than peace. ~Woodrow Wilson



Novelties please less than they impress. ~Byron, Don Juan, 1824



Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. ~Saint Thomas Aquinas



God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. ~Jacques Rigaut, Pensees



Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ~Philip James Bailey



They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759



The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. ~Edgar Allan Poe



A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. ~Gloria Steinem A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank. ~Author Unknown



The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James



Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. ~Robert Lynd



A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. ~Andre Maurois