Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens. ~John Luckacs
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. ~David McCullough
Fair dealing: a doctrine of limitations and exceptions to copyright which is found in many of the common law jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Nations.
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ~Henry David Thoreau
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ~Wilt Chamberlain
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. ~Albert Camus, The Rebel
Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. ~Dolores LaChapelle
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain
Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires." ~John McSherry
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism? ~Henry Ward Beecher
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle
It's just life - wake up and smell the thorns. ~From the movie Meet Joe Black
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
Freedom is not enough. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up. ~Author Unknown
If we don't go crazy once in a while, we'll all go crazy. ~Hawkeye, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Alan Alda
A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript. ~Richard Steele, Spectator
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ~Ellen Goodman
Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. ~Gwyn Thomas
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. ~Joseph Farrell
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
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse. ~Finley Peter Dunne
