quotes and cute pictures

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. ~Sandy Lyle



Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. ~James Garfield



It's easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years? ~Author Unknown



The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. ~Author Unknown



God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir



It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James



Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding. ~John Hopkins, Squash: A Joyful Game, 1980



Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ~Edgar Degas



The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ~Benjamin Disraeli



The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ~Dawn Fraser



Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. ~Etty Hillesum Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs



True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal



Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ~John Ruskin



The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works. ~William Strong



In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays



All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull



If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Le Misanthrope



For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ~Seneca



Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and say you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set. ~Raymond Chandler