william wordsworth daffodils poem

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. ~Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens



Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand Russell



It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ~Bruce McCall



Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. ~Author Unknown



The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ~Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, Etats et empires de la lune, 1656



Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922



Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ~William Hazlitt



If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. ~Jean Cocteau



I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. ~Malcolm Muggeridge



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



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



Sport is a preserver of health. ~Hippocrates



Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis



You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown



One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~Mark Twain



Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. ~George Washington In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. ~George Washington



When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ~Author Unknown



When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. ~Rumi



When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842