quotes about being strong

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. ~Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794



History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ~George Santayana



To a man with an empty stomach food is God. ~Gandhi



Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge



Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it. ~Author Unknown



An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas



The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson



You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. ~Henry David Thoreau



Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893



The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat. ~Aaron Allston



Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. ~Clement Mok



Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball. ~Jim Murray, 1967



A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. ~Lycurgus



Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick. ~Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 13 April 1990



Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~George Claude Lorimer



Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness. ~Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988



Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran



I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. ~Horace Greeley I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. ~Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964



Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. ~Henry IV of France