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An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. ~Henry Wotton, Reliqui? Wottonian?



Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators. ~George Orwell



Beauty and folly are generally companions. ~Baltasar Gracian



To ride a horse is to ride the sky. ~Author Unknown



If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ~Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect, 1959



History is a great dust heap. ~Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta



I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck



We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang



Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881



Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell



Presence is more than just being there. ~Malcolm S. Forbes, The Further Sayings of Chairman Malcolm



You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~Author Unknown



No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero



A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The hardest work in the world is being out of work. ~Whitney Young, Jr.



Sometimes... when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing. ~From the television show Ally McBeal



Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ~William Makepeace Thackeray



The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie



The future is no place to place your better days. ~Dave Matthews