quotes on sportsmanship

A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it. ~Author Unknown



None are so blind as those who will not see. ~Author Unknown



When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough! ~Irish Saying



Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw



I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. ~John Updike



You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra. ~Author Unknown



Don't blame me. I voted with the majority. ~Author Unknown



The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard



I think I could fall madly in bed with you. ~Author Unknown



There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill



To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~Aldous Huxley



Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~Donald Dowes



Any day spent sewing, is a good day. ~Author Unknown



I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ~William Shakespeare



Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ~Carol Nelson



We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827