Archive for August, 2006

Pete Rose on Sports

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

- Pete Rose

John Dryden on Love

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

- John Dryden

Robert Frost on Sports

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

- Robert Frost

Oscar W. Firkins on Humor

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world’s economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

- Oscar W. Firkins

Og Mandino on Love

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Do all things with love.

- Og Mandino

T. S. Eliot on Politics

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

- T. S. Eliot

Carl Sandburg on War

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

Thomas A. Edison on Jobs & Working

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

P. J. O’Rourke on Government

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

- P. J. O’Rourke

Dale Carnegie on Art

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

- Dale Carnegie