I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
Beauty is only skin deep.
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.
An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
The scripture teaches that he who now restrains will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way.
Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.
You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.