Butterflies
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun And find your shoulder to light on, To…
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun And find your shoulder to light on, To…
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~Harold Geneen A business that makes nothing but…
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may…
There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own. I care not…
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~Robert Southey Good things, when short, are twice as good. ~Baltasar Gracian, The Art…
When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should…
Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~Gian Vincenzo Gravina Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in…
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Boredom is a vital problem for…
A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown A book is the only place in which you…
It is better to be bold than too circumspect because fortune is of sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli Put a…
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Take care of your body. It's the…
May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb May you live all the days of your life. ~Irish blessing also attributed to…
A crying baby is the best form of birth control. ~Carole Tabron Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~Bob…
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712 I once had…
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard It…
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except…
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human…
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Everybody needs beauty as well as…
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 This is the second…
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.…
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…