quotes about regret

Sport is a preserver of health. ~Hippocrates



A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden. ~Terri Guillemets



Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes? ~Chang Chan-Pao



I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. ~Sigmund Freud



I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone



The Bible is literature, not dogma. ~George Santayana



Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless



When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox



Dictum: a statement or saying, especially a formal statement of fact, opinion, principle, etc., or of one's will or judgment; a pronouncement; a noteworthy statement, as a formal pronouncement of a principle, proposition, or opinion, or an observation intended or regarded as authoritative.



Stress is an admission of weakness, a cry of defeat to the world. ~Carrie Latet



Not unfortunately the universe is wild - game-flavoured as a hawk's wing. ~B.P. Blood



By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us. ~Edwin Markham



Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment. ~Anonymous



Winning isn't overrated - it's your acceptance of being rated. ~Carrie Latet



Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg



What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud



Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years. ~Warren Buffett



Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~Dennis Gabor Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker



Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald