Posts in the category “quotations”
What a strange way to put it …
“Ten years ago I might not be sitting here today.” – from a commercial for America’s Pharmaceutical Companies
“They that go down to the Sea in Ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep.”
Psalm 107
Javascript Clock
How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men’s lives. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me For now hath time made me his numbering clock; My thoughts are minutes. William Shakespeare – Richard III
“When I’m playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales.”
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
The highest-priced tickets in baseball got pricier Wednesday when the Boston Red Sox announced a 7.4 percent overall increase for this season.
Prices for the cheapest seats — upper and lower bleachers and outfield grandstand — are unchanged from last year, but all others are rising. Infield roof box, loge and field box seats, the most expensive at Fenway Park, will increase from $55 to $60.
I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate — that we could mould our lives into any form we pleased… I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life’s struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about. I forgot that I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment… Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.
from Midstream: My Later Life, by Helen Keller
“Some people are born on third base and think they hit a triple.”
Lou Holtz
Elise Rules
Elise points out a plain and simple truth: Sometimes, the only way to teach an a55h0le a lesson is with a good ass-whuppin’.
“At that time my Dad made a pretty good living as a pirate so Mom really didn’t have a choice. She did eventually take some correspondence courses, it did take longer than usual due to our wanderings but she did manage to get an Associate’s Degree in TV/VCR repair (which was even more impressive in light of the fact that our boat had neither a TV or VCR).”
from the About Page at Scurvy Boy