Saint Augustine on Love

October 14th, 2006

Love is the beauty of the soul.

- Saint Augustine

Ben Hogan on Sports

October 13th, 2006

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?

- Ben Hogan

Sinclair Lewis on Age

October 13th, 2006

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

- Sinclair Lewis

Robert Green Ingersoll on Nature

October 12th, 2006

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Augustine Birrell on History

October 12th, 2006

That great dust-heap called ‘history’.

- Augustine Birrell

Russell Baker on Nature

October 11th, 2006

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

- Russell Baker

Richard Selzer on Nature

October 11th, 2006

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.

- Richard Selzer

Samuel Goldwyn on Movies

October 10th, 2006

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

- Samuel Goldwyn

Michael Jordan on Sports

October 10th, 2006

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

- Michael Jordan

Harry Emerson Fosdick on God & Religion

October 9th, 2006

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side - the ‘unsearchable riches of Christ’ - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick