quotes on sportsmanship

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away. ~Psalms 90:10



Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales. ~Mark Twain



Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal



If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? ~George Carlin



I think I just ate my willpower. ~Author Unknown



If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter. ~Jack Fyock



Gluttony is not a secret vice. ~Orson Welles



Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb



The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. ~Havelock Ellis



A father lives after death in his son. ~Sanskrit



You know you've been playing too much Nethack when you refer to coffee as a potion of sleep resistance. ~Sweeney Todd Lundgren



Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster



Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought



How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk



Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." ~Author Unknown



The camera can photograph thought. ~Dirk Bogarde



The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle



Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. ~Sam Ewing