Human race

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

- Anonymous

Men and Women (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The gods are ... (Aristotle)

The gods too are fond of a joke.

- Aristotle

An egg is dear on Easter day.

- Russian proverb

All marriages are ...

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

- Anonymous

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

- Erich Fromm

I was never less alone than when by myself.

- Edward Gibbon (English historian, 1737-1794)

If you want to be happy ...

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

- English Proverb

Thanksgiving is ...

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

- P. J. O'Rourke

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

- Winston Churchill

UGLINESS

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.

- English Proverb

Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it.

- Anonymous

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

- Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

NYT: The Right Reasons to Stretch Before Exercise

November 16, 2011, 12:01 AM
The Right Reasons to Stretch Before Exercise
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

For an article being published in next month’s issue of The British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia reviewed dozens of recent studies of stretching, hoping to determine whether the practice prevents people from getting sore after they exercise. The authors found 12 studies completed in the past 25 years that looked directly at that issue. Most were small and short-term. But each produced essentially the same result, the review authors write, showing that “stretching does not produce important reductions in muscle soreness in the days following exercise.”

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

- Ellen DeGeneres

My good intentions are completely lethal.

- Margaret Atwood

Positive Thinking

Positive thinking gains the whole world, Negative thinking is reduced to begging.

- Power Of Positive Thinking

Old soldiers ... (Douglas MacArthur)

Old soldiers never die; They just fade away.

- Douglas MacArthur

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.

- Cher

Happiness is ... (Charles M. Schulz)

Happiness is a warm puppy.

- Charles M. Schulz (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)

I didn't accept it. I received it.

- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

- Aesop

Art (Al Capp)

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

- Al Capp

Politics, Julius Caesar

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

- Julius Caesar (Roman general and statesman, 100BC-44BC)

Victory and defeat

You can learn a little from victory; you can learn everything from defeat.

- Christy Mathewson (1880-1925)

Man with all his noble qualities...with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

- Anonymous

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

- Carl Sagan

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

- Anonymous