quotes about jumping

When the wine goes in, strange things come out. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799



There aren't enough days in the weekend. ~Rod Schmidt



I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ~Francis Bellamy, The Youth's Companion, 8 September 1892



Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar



When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn't hope to find himself again. ~Robert Bolt



I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~Booker T. Washington



People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. ~Dennis Ritchie



The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. ~Martin Luther



If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. ~Barbara L. Diamond If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison



God, that dumping ground of our dreams. ~Jean Rostand, Carnets d'un Biologiste, 1962



The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. ~Will Rogers



That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980



An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault. ~William Castle



I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ~Eugene V. Debs



In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ~Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire



Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. ~Jean Cocteau



The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. ~H.L. Mencken