In Order to get the prince of your dreams, you need to kiss a lot of toads.

I always try to have an open mind but my brain always keep falling out.

“I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Once i desired for a piece of bread, and what I got is a piece of stone in the form of pedestal.

The person who says we cannot buy happiness with money it means that he dont know where to shop for happiness.

I would always like to have a photographic memory but it never developed.

I always say two wrongs donot make a single right, then u must try three.

There are three sides to any argument: your side, my side and the right side.

Where there is a will, there is a way to hundreds of relatives and friends.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

It is always better to understand less than to misunderstand a lot.

Till now i have found that only 2 things are infinite:
The Universe
Human Stupidity

The advantage of exercising every day is that you will die as a healthy.

The only flaw in me is that I consider myself as the most perfect in this world.

Winners never Quit and Quitters never Win.

You are not Stupid but everyone else is smarter than you.

They say kids brighten the home. That’s because they never turn the lights off.

Time has always been a great teacher, but unfortunately it has been killing all its pupils.

Men are always visualised like a Parking Spots, the good ones are taken and the free ones are handicapped.

Questions are never stupid, the person asking them is stupid.

The wind which blows between a horses ears is the wind that blows from heaven.

Its nice to be cool and fit in but its better to be awesome and fit in.

Dreams are like rainbows but only idiots chase them.

Boys are like mailboxes theres always another one down the road.

Inspiration is like a lost sock. When your searching you can never find it, and when it appears, you least expect it.

Being in love isn’t always as much fun as we think it is. When you love someone and they dont love you, you wish it were love and all you can do is try your best not to cry when you see them and they are in the arms of your best friend.

Dont follow my footsteps i walk into walls.

I grew up with six brothers - thats how i learn to dance - waiting for the bathroom…

A good friend will bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting beside you say ” Damn that was fun!”

The canter is the cure for all evil.

If you want to hoot with the owls, you’ve got to soar with the eagles. But what if you dont want to soar with the eagles because you like the owls better?

When life hands me a road block its my choice to step over it

Cracks in the sidewalk are only reminders that you are never to strong to fall apart.

All I want is for one guy to prove to me that they all arent the same..

When you mess up,another person messes up with you so dont be down.

The words “I LOVE YOU” meens more than money itself.

You can be in love, or you can love. One is foolish, one is dangerous.
One is worth it.

All the good things in life will either kill you, make you fat, or get someone pregnant!

People say sorry in different ways.
Sometimes it is heard to express how sorry we are.

I never realized what friendship meant to some people…it is and always will be the greatest blessing in my life!

My silence is my sound…

To win some you have to lose some.

Barking up the wrong tree.

Dog in a manger.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

Dogs are miracles with paws.

Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be.

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window!

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog and ready money.

They say the dog is man’s best friend. I don’t believe that. How many of your friends have you neutered?

I went to an exclusive kennel club. It was very exclusive. There was a sign out front: No Dogs Allowed.

He that lieth down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

I have a great dog. She’s half Lab, half pit bull. A good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she’ll bring it back to me.

Don’t make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they’ll treat you like dogs.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

I like driving around with my two dogs, especially on the freeways. I make them wear little hats so I can use the car-pool lanes.

Man is a dog’s ideal of what God should be.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we’d find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, he will make a fool of himself too.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

A boy’s best friend is his dog.

A man’s best friend is his dog.

A house is not a home without a dog.

Dogs are really people with short legs in fur coats.

Dogs are people too.

Be tuff ! The dog days of summer can be wuff.

Family and friends welcome. Fleas are not.

Friends Fur-ever.

Husband and dog missing … 25 cents reward for dog.

Wife and dog missing … 25 cents reward for dog.

If you want the best seat in the house … move the dog.

Life is just one table scrap after another.

My dog’s not spoiled … I’m just well trained.

Recycle bones here.

Beware of attack puppy.

A spoiled rotten dog lives here.

In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog.

Maybe you’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places. A dog will treat you better than anyone you’ll meet at happy hour. Trust me. I’ve been to happy hour.

A dog will quickly turn you into a fool, but who cares? Better your dog than your boss. I’m a fool for my dog and proud of it.

Dogs are better than children. Even my friends with children say that. As a dog friend of mine likes to say, children are for people who can’t have dogs.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Tail wagging the dog.

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

I hurt myself, so I can feel alive.

It’s quite ironic that in life, the person that brings out the best in you and the one that makes you strong is actually your weakness..

“If I’m such and important person, why do you stutter when i ask you if you know my name?”

“If you love me so much, why are you walking away?”

“Can you give me a reason for coming out of the closet?”

Your coment cheered me up.

Since when was my name on the attendance, am i really that important?”

Sometimes if you love someone so much, it will actually hurt more.

Here we are! A compilation of some of Dan’s best emoisms from the past week.

“Life is worthless. Would you please leave me Evelyn so that I can end it all? You’re the only reason I’m living for and I wanna start dying.”

“Mother suspects that I’m a gayer. She stormed into the room with your dress that I had borrowed last night. I think she found it on the stairs, which is where I left it after coming home drunk earlier.”

“I think I’m dying Evelyn. I can hear the vampire bats of death flapping away in my head like an insane drill of doom”

“What’s the point in eating when you just end up crapping it all out anyway?”

“What’s the point in ever trying to be happy when the very pursuit of happiness is what makes you miserable.”

“I tried to cut myself last night to Joy Division with my toothbrush. I was sitting there trying to peel away as many layers of skin as I could but I couldn’t make a serious dent in my arm. I kept doing it for half an hour. My mother actually thought I was brushing my teeth for that long!”

“Jesus didn’t have to go through half of the pain I’m experiencing now. At least he knew he was special. I have no such assurances. I’m just another outbreak of the human virus which has contaminated Planet Earth.”

“There is such beauty in despair Evelyn, don’t you think?”

“I tried to suffocate myself in the cupboard last night, but I came out when I heard the theme tune to Lost. I simply can’t afford to miss an episode of that show.”

“Euthenasia sounds like such a good idea. Why can’t young people sign up for it voluntarily? I’m tired of waking up every morning and crying into my Rice Krispies. It’s just Sob, Splutter and Sob for me, every goddamn day.”

“I’ve never felt I’ve been valued by anyone. I’m just a waste of space that everyone ignores, like a ghost without a home.”

“Sometimes I want to break out of his vacuum but I just can’t. The space demons keep calling me back into the void. I feel comfortable there!”

“I want to die but I can’t think of a way to end it all that involves cotton wool. I’m terrified of blades.”

“I wish I was a duck, then I wouldn’t have to give a damn y’know? I could just sit there in the pond and float about, eating scraps of bread. It’s my idea of heaven y’know? Perhaps that’s what happens when you die and you’ve been good! You go to the great pond on the sky where the Lord will feed you bits of bread for all eternity”

“I’m tired of being made the scapegoat in life. I feel like I’m being persecuted at every possible moment. Even if a kitty comes up to me I’m suspicious of it’s motives. I know it’s just there to make a fool out of me.”

“If God exists why did He have to give me such a horrible looking body? I mean what’s the point in having nipples if you are a man? I’ve tried biting them off in the past but I doubt I could handle the pain. I don’t know what I’d say to Mother on the way to the hospital either……”

“Bill Hicks………how adorable! There’s just something about him that reminds me of a chipmunk. I’d love to feed him a bit of wood and stroke his wig. What do you mean he’s dead?”

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
– Mae West

His mouth is a no-go area. It’s like kissing the Berlin Wall
- Helena Bonhem Carter on Woody Allen

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger

He has a face like a Saint - A Saint Bernard.
- Unknown

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstien, but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
- Tom Shale on Robin Williams

If I found her floating in my pool, I’d punish my dog.
- Joan Rivers on Yoko Ono

God does not play dice with the universe.
- Albert Einstien

She is as wholesome as a bowl of cornflakes and at least as sexy.
- Dwight McDonald on Doris Day

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
- President Harry S Truman

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
- Bob Wells

Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
- Screen Tester on Fred Astaire

An empty suit that goes to funerals and plays golf.
- Ross Perot on Dan Quayle

Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.
- Rex Reed on Marlon Brando

He could start a row in an empty house
- Sir Alex Ferguson on footballer Dennis Wise

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
– Mark Twain

I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
– Irvin S. Cobb

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
– Clarence Darrow

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
– William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.
– Moses Hadas

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
–Abraham Lincoln

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.
– Groucho Marx

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
– Oscar Wilde

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
–Winston Churchill

I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.
– Stephen Bishop

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
– John Bright

When Kissinger can get the Nobel Peace Prize, what is there left for satire?
- Tom Lehrer on Henry Kissinger

Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
- Abbey Hoffman

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
- Don Rickles

Breasts like Granite and a brain like Swiss Cheese
- Billy Wilder on Marilyn Monroe

The thief of bad gags.
- Walter Winchell on Milton Berne

I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born
- Ronald Reagan

The average person thinks he isn’t.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni

He’s proof that there’s life after death.
- Mort Sahl on Ronald Reagan

The only genius with an IQ of 60.
- Gore Vidal on Andy Warhol

He’s so ugly they ought to donate his face to the world wildlife fund.
- Muhammad Ali on Joe Frazier

She’s so stupid she returns bowling balls because they’ve got holes in them.
- Joan Rivers on Bo Derek

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.
- Douglas Adams

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
- Jean Giraudoux

Shaw writes his plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.
- George Nathan on George Bernard Shaw

He is to acting what Liberace was to pumping iron.
- Rex Reed on Sylvester Stallone

What makes him think a middle aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?
- Ronald Reagan commenting on Eastwood’s bid to become mayor of Carmel

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- Shakespeare

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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
- W C Fields

He had the compassion of an icicle and the generosity of a pawnbroker.
- S J Perelman on Groucho Marx

Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn’t expect to be paid back.
- Unknown

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln

A bird in hand is safer than one overhead.
- Anonymous

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
- Chuck Norris

Nothing makes a man so modest about his income as a tax form to fill out.

I used to be indecisive, now I’m not so sure.
- W.C. Fields

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
- Josh Billings

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the ones that never have it.
- Finley Peter Dunne

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
- Jeffrey Bernard

Money, horse racing and women, three things the boys just can’t figure out.
- Will Rogers

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business.
- John Steinbeck

Horse racing is animated roulette.
- Roger Kahn

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
- Richard Sasuly

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
- Benjamin Franklin

Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.
- Werner Erhard

This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.
- Ted Walsh

I had a horse, always, and I’d ride the horse in the summertime, sometimes bare back - gentle horse, you understand.
- Sam Donaldson

Horse Racing Fantasy is exactly what the sport needs. It’s exciting and educational. Good work!!
- Nick Hines

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar.
- Doug Horton

I ride my horse at competition level.
- Alannah Myles

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
- Ovid

A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
- Xenophon

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
- Henny Youngman

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.
- Jan de Bont

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
- Buffalo Bill

I have seven horses. I’m known to go off on my horse for about six hours in the wilderness.
- Armand Assante

If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.
- Richie Allen

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
- Tiger Woods

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
- Steve Rushin

I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.
- Rodney Dangerfield

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
- Gordie Howe

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
- Stephen Leacock

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
- Wayne Gretzky

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
- Doug Larson

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
- John Leonard

A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another.
- Jimmy Cannon

PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.
- Anonymous

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that’s going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don’t take that out of our game at the pro level.
- Bobby Orr

Certainly we’re not satisfied with just winning games. We’ve been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
- François de la Rochefoucauld

Street hockey is great for kids.It’s energetic, competitive, and skilful.And best of all it keeps them off the street.
- Author Unknown

I don’t like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don’t like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it’s essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
- Wayne Gretzky

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker’s responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
- Roger Kahn

When I was shooting Drive Me Crazy, I wanted to go out with the rest of the cast and stay up late and play air hockey. I just wanted to have fun.
- Melissa Joan Hart

Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins.
- Anonymous

In terms of soccer, it wasn’t really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It’s to each their own, really.
- Parminder Nagra

Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records.
- Anonymous

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing… everything else is just figure skating.
- Anonymous

Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.
- Mark Wahlberg

Hockey is the original extreme sport.
- Tom Ward

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.
- Mike Weir

I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.
- Merlin Olsen

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
- Joe Sakic

I want to go ride my motorcycle on my ranch.
- Lance Armstrong

Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death…
- Hunter S. Thompson

Why are motorcycle dealers closed on Sundays? Because Sunday is for worship… Catholics go to church, Motorcyclists go to the track.
- Justin Skalka

98% of all Harleys ever sold are still on the road. The other 2% made it home.
- Anonymous

I’d rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my motorcycle.
- Anonymous

I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.
- Dave Barry

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
- Anonymous

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
- Gael Garcia Bernal

Ever since the young men have owned motorcycles, incest has been dying out.
- Max Frisch

I think a lot of people, myself included, like to be… like to do expeditions and trips. To me, this feels a little bit like a motorcycle trip.
- Duane G. Carey

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
- Mary Kay Blakely

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.
- Charisma Carpenter

And I to my motorcycle Parked like the soul of the junkyard Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106 continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth Wringing the handlebar for speed Wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
- Gael Garcia Bernal

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
- Anonymous

They say C is a pitch; it’s the name of a sound. So is a cat’s meow a sound, so is a motorcycle, so is anything.
- Lester Bowie

I’d rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my motorcycle.
- Anonymous

Riding a motorcycle on today’s highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.
- Evel Knievel

And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.
- Duane G. Carey

Yeah, but people aren’t comfortable with a woman who looks very masculine or rides a motorcycle or wears leather or has facial hair or has short hair.
- Pam Grier

You see, I don’t know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.
- Henry Winkler

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
- Chantal Kreviazuk

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.
- David Ellis

Volleyball is the sport through which I am able to express my God-given talents of being an athlete. It is a sport which involves relating, pushing, and encouraging your teammates.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.
- Gabrielle Reece

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It’s fun, and nobody can get hurt.
- Gail Parent

Volleyball is my life, everything else is just details.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.
- Newt Gingrich

Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modelling.
- Gabrielle Reece

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I’m 5′9 and that’s not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
- Bridgette Wilson

I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
- Mia Hamm

I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can’t make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can’t make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.
- Holly McPeak

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can’t go hide in the corner.
- Kerri Walsh

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
- Bart Starr

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason. I burned inside to play volleyball. I loved the competition of it.
- Summer Altice

Volleyball is a dandy game and more besides.
- Peter Wardale

My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.
- Gisele

Give it your all on the sprawl, Drop a pancake and keep it clean, Find the target, put ‘em on the hook then dish it up, flare and catch some air, Check the set, bring some heat and watch them bail!

Volleyball is 20 percent luck and 80 percent style.

If volleyball was easy it would be called football.

VolleyBall Life :
1. we can get it up in any position
2. our shorts are tighter than our game
3. we can handle a little floor burn every now and then
4. we’re always gonna hit it hard
5. we’ll play with you indoors or outdors
6. balls never hit the floor and we’ll get a touch on all of them that come our way
7. we can play with 2 or 6 other people
8. we’ve got quick feet and quick hands
9. we like it quick hard and fast
10. and no matter what we gonna beat you up
…because volleyball is more than just a sport, it’s a way of life……

I see my face in the mirror and go, ‘I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?
- Drew Carey

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
- William Shakespeare

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
- Erma Bombeck

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, ‘Never take candy from strangers.’ And then they dressed me up and said, ‘Go beg for it.’ I didn’t know what to do. I’d knock on people’s doors and go, ‘Trick or treat. No thank you.’
- Rita Rudner

When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween.
- Anonymous

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
- Joseph Conrad

Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.
- Lindsay Lohan

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
- Rodney Dangerfield

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
- Jean Baudrillard

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
- River Phoenix

I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
- Charles Swartz

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
- Richard Harris Barharn

On Halloween, witches come true;
Wild ghosts escape from dreams.
Each monster dances in the park.
- Nicholas Gordon

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
- William Shakespeare

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.
- Emily Luchetti

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special.
- Chris Rock

The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.
- Warner Oland

The witches fly
Across the sky,
The owls go, “Who? Who? Who?”
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
“Scary Halloween to you!”
- Nina Willis Walter

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
- Bruce Lee

You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning Karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.
- Gichin Funakoshi

Aikido is not a defensive martial art. Being defensive is a terrible way to go through life.This means be proactive. It does not mean hit first.
- Dojo wall

The ultimate aim of karate-do lies not in victory or defeat,
but in the perfection of the character of its participants.”
- Gichin Funakoshi

A black belt is nothing more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of mind and attitude.”
- Rick English

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
- Dave Barry

The art of the sword consists of never being concerned with victory or defeat, with strength or weakness, of not moving one step forward, nor one step backward, or the enemy not seeing me and my not seeing the enemy. Penetrating to that which is fundamental before the separation of heaven and earth where even yin and yang cannot reach, one instantly attains proficiency in the art.
- Takuan

He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool- Shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple- Teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, He is asleep- Awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise- follow him.
- Bruce Lee

Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.
- Duk Sung Son

The FAQ that can be read is not the true FAQ.
The answers that can be posted are not the true answers.
The superior man hears not the whining of newbies and is not singed by the flames of the net. Belts do not bind him, nor trophies burden him. Discarding all, he gains all, and follows the way. Got any spare change, pal?
- Lao Tzu

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
- Bruce Lee

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.
- Bruce Lee

It’s not the style that wins the fight, without the fighter, the style is nothing. It is the good fighter that makes any particular style a good style for him. The style has no power within it’s self, only the power in which we give it when we apply what we learn.
- Phillip Session (aka Black Dragon)

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.
- Sun Tsu

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.
- Anonymous

An autumn night — don’t think your life didn’t matter.
- Basho

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only infinite passion of life.
— Federico Fellini

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
— Samuel Johnson

My instructor once told me that the first five dan ranks come for what you’ve gotten out of the system, the next ranks come for what you’ve given back
- Anonymous

The believer is happy, the doubter wise.
— Greek proverb

Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.
- Gichin Funakoshi

If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
— Zen saying

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
— Rumi

It takes a long time to understand nothing.
— Edward Dahlberg

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet … One should count each day as a separate life.
- Seneca

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself
- Chinese Proverb

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it: If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

Someone asked, “How is the sword of wisdom before it is whetted?” Shuiyan said, “Can’t be used.” The questioner continued, ” How is it after it is whetted?” Shuiyan said, ” Can’t be touched.”
— Zen Mondo

I have not failed 700 times, I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
-Thomas Edison

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas Gandhi

The fastest draw is when the sword never leaves the scabbard. The strongest way to block, is never to provoke a blow. And the cleanest cut is the one withheld.
- Anonymous

I am a cobra and these words are my venom. And through my magical lore I shall capture your mind and spew my poison into your eyes. Then my world will become your world and you shall die
- Anonymous

What is soundless, touchless, formless, imperishable, Likewise tasteless, constant, odorless, Without beginning, without end, higher than the great, stable—By discerning That, one is liberated from the mouth of death.
—The Upanishads

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.
— Albert Schweitzer

Hoping to see Karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The Karate that high school students practice today is not the same Karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago, and it is a long way indeed from the Karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.
- Gichin Funakoshi

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
- Charles Lamb

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
- Anonymous

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year’s resolution.
- Jay Leno

We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
- James Agate

New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
- Mark Twain

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that.
- Judith Christ

Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
- Anonymous

New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
- Leonard Bernstein

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.
- Anonymous

The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
- W.H. Auden

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
- Charles Dickens

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
- P. J. O’Rourke

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
- T.S. Eliot

Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you … but your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others.
- Unknown

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
- Bill Vaughan

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
- Brooks Atkinson

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
- Edward Payson Powell

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
- Oscar Wilde

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
- Edgar Guest

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
- Bart Simpson

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
- Richard Lamm

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
- Agnes M. Pharo

Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man.
- Margaret Cousins

From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
- Emily Matthews

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
- Bill McKibben

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
- Calvin Coolidge

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- Charles Dickens

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hillis

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
- W. C. Jones

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark.
- Dick Gregory

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.
- Helen Steiner Rice

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.
- Kate L. Bosher

Before the ice is in the pools,
Before the skaters go,
Or any cheek at nightfall
Is tarnished by the snow,
Before the fields have finished,
Before the Christmas tree,
Wonder upon wonder
Will arrive to me!
- Emily Dickinson

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
- Garrison Keillor

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
- George Bernard Shaw

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior,Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
- Francis C. Farley

Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
- Lenora Mattingly Weber

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
- Oren Arnold

Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren’t for Christmas
We’d all be Jewish.
- Benny Hill

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
- May Sarton

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
- Anonymous

Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
- Vachel Lindsay

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
- P.J. O’Rourke

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
- Peg Bracken

Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance.It may weave a spell of nostalgia.Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
- Augusta E. Rundel

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks,Christmas comes once more.
- Phillips Brooks

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.
- Stanley Crawford

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
- Anonymous

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they do when they stick together.
- Verna M. Kelly

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
- Willa Sibert Cather

In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time.
- Jean Alesi

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
- Andrew Wyeth

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
- William Bradford

Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man’s ingratitude.
- William Shakespeare

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
- John Burroughs

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
- Christina Rossetti

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
- Will Rogers

And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
- Roy Bean

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.
- Russ Carnahan

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
- Dave Barry

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
- W.J. Vogel

You can’t get too much winter in the winter.
- Robert Frost

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
- Andy Goldsworthy

Brew me a cup for a winter’s night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I’ll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.
- Minna Thomas Antrim

Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
- Sinclair Lewis

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
- Edith Sitwell

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.
- Harry Johnston

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
- Anonymous

One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese Proverb

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
- Damon Hill

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
- Franz Kafka

I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
- Bruce Dickinson

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
- Thorstein Veblen

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat.Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
- Anonymous

Using a sword is like sex. You can’t get good by practicing by yourself or with your relatives.
- Jack Sparrow

The essence of fencing is to give, but by no means to receive.
- Moliere

Hold your sword as if you were holding a bird in your hand: not too lightly to prevent his escape and not too tightly to prevent him choking.
- Justin Lafauger

The leading coaches of the world unanimously agree that epee has become the premier weapon to fence and to watch.
- Bob Anderson

The book deals with being an honorable person in a dishonest world. The Fencing Master does not sell himself. That’s his tragedy, and that is also his strength and his glory.
- Arturo Perez Reverte

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
- Vivien Leigh

Your actions are not small. Your actions must be very small.If they are not, you cannot fence.
- Anonymous

I’m a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.
- Bruce Dickinson

The tactical difference between Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former, the ball is the missile, in the latter, men are the missles.
- Alfred E. Crawley

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.
- Chris Laidlaw

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman’s game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.
- Henry Blaha

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.
- Jean-Pierre Rives

Rugby is great.The players don’t wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer.I love that.
- Joe Theismann

It’s a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
- Jonah Lomu

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.
- Ryan Giggs

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.
- Chris Laidlaw

There is far too much talk about good ball and bad ball. In my opinion, good ball is when you have possession and bad ball is when the opposition have it.
- Dick Jeeps

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I’m an angel.
- Jonny Wilkinson

The advantage law is the best law in rugby,because it lets you ignore all the others for the good of the game.
- Derek Robinson

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient… That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?
- Peter Pook

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.
- Will Carling

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.
- Pierre Danos

To play rugby league, you need three things: a good pass, a good tackle and a good excuse.
- Anon

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
- Yoshiro Mori

Rugby is not like tea, which is good only in England, with English water and English milk. On the contrary, rugby would be better, frankly, if it were made in a Twickenham pot and warmed up in a Pyrenean cauldron.
- Dennis LaLanne

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other’s ears off.
- Elizabeth Taylor

On female rugby teams - Everybody thinks we should have moustaches and hairy arses, but in fact you could put us all on the cover of Vogue.
- Helen Kirk

The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday.
- Tom David

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
- Henry C. Link

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.
- Russian Proverb

Swimming isn’t everything, winning is.
- Mark Spitz

Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim?
- Author Unknown

What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn.
- Author Unknown

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
- Bruce Lee

Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it.
- Author Unknown

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
- Esther Williams

Swimming - what real men do while boys play football.
- Author Unknown

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
- Woodrow Wilson

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.
- Michael Phelps

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
- Jerome Fleishman

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
- Johnny Weissmuller

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
- Edsger Dijkstra

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
- Jack Handy

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
- John Oates

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
- Merlin Olsen

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
- Nastassja Kinski

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
- Robert Collier

I love sailing and water sports; whether it’s water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.
- Karolina Kurkova

Swimming is : Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
- Ed Howe

Babies haven’t any hair;
Old men’s heads are just as bare;
Between the cradle and the grave
Lie a haircut and a shave.
- Samuel Hoffenstein

A crying baby is the best form of birth control.
- Carole Tabron

Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful.
- Charles

Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy’s heart instead of her tummy.
- Anonymous

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
- Mark Twain

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.
- B.C. Seifert

Children are our most valuable natural resource.
- Herbert Hoover

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
- Jeff Foxworthy

I can’t think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
- Douglas Feaver

Every baby needs a lap.
- Henry Robin

Double the love and double the joy, we’ve been blessed with two baby boys.
- Anonymous

Bottles, booties, bibs and more, let’s shower the baby with gifts galore.
- Anonymous

It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.
- E.G. Smith

Babies fill a hole in your heart that you never knew existed.
- Anonymous

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
- Don Herrold

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
- Muhammad Ali

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
- Alexis Arguello

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
- Frank Bruno

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that’s why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.
- Alexis Arguello

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved.
- Joyce Carol Oates

You need the whole package - boxing, interval training, weights, nutrition, rest, everything. I combine all of them together so I can become like a machine up in that ring.
- Oscar De La Hoya

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
- Joe Frazier

Boxing is show-business with blood.
- David Belasco

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
- Frank Bruno

This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.
- Harry Carpenter

I should warn you that underneath these clothes I’m wearing boxer shorts and I know how to use them.
- Robert Orben

Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious.
- Alan Minter

Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else - and it hasn’t - it’s that girls should stick to girls’ sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.
- Homer Simpson

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There’s nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
- Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
- George Foreman

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
- Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.
- Bob Verdi

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn’t set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don’t have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don’t get hit.
- Evander Holyfield

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
- Omar Epps

Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson’s appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.
- Fred Mitchell

All the time he’s boxing, he’s thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
- Jack Dempsey

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
- George Foreman

In boxing, everybody has their favorites.
- Thomas Hearns

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
- Roger Kahn

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn’t have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
- Sugar Ray Leonard

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
- Budd Schulberg

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
- Bob Verdi

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

As athletes, we’re used to reacting quickly. Here, it’s ‘come, stop, come, stop.’ There’s a lot of downtime. That’s the toughest part of the day.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve.And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish.Stay reachable.Stay in touch.Don’t isolate.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I realize that I’m black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody’s wish.

Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.
- Dan Frisby

Nothing there but basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
- Ogden Nash

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don’t know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.
- Kobe Bryant

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
- Charles Barkley

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
- Charles Barkley

I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years.Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
- Dave Barry

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn’t moved on me yet.
- Julius Erving

Basketball doesn’t build character. It reveals it.
- Unknown

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.
- Michael Jordan

The invention of basketball was not an accident.It was developed to meet a need.Those boys simply would not play “Drop the Handkerchief.”
- James Naismith

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
- Earvin ”Magic” Johnson

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
- Bobby Knight

It does’nt matter if you fall down,it’s whether you get back up .
- Micheal Jordan

Money isn’t everything. I know I’ll make lots of it playing basketball, but I’m in no hurry.
- Andrew Bogut

I truly love the game of basketball. I truly love the game. I wouldn’t be playing if I didn’t love the game.
- Michael Jordan

If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.
- Isiah Thomas

When it’s played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams
- John Edgar Wideman

Basketball is the MTV of sports.
- Sara Levinson

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators.
- Dick Vertleib