quotes on quality

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce



Curlers do it hard. ~Saying of the sport



Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed



Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983



Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. ~William Osler



The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys. ~Author Unknown



Dogs eat. Cats dine. ~Ann Taylor



We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. ~John Locke



Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel



Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats. ~Woody Allen



It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ~Albert Einstein



The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield



There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter



If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~Frederick Douglass



The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. ~Norman Douglas



He was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty. ~Arthur Brisbane



I'm not sure... about automobiles.... With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization - that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls. I am not sure. But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us suspect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace. I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles; just how, though, I could hardly guess. But you can't have the immense outward changes that they will cause without some inward ones, and it may be that... the spiritual alteration will be bad for us. Perhaps, ten or twenty years from now, if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine, but would have to agree... that automobiles 'had no business to be invented.' ~Eugene, from Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, 1918



I'm itching to be stitching! ~Author Unknown



Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. ~George Santayana



We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860