Quotes On Boldness

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.  

Michel de Montaigne

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.  

Machiavelli

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.  

Francis Bacon

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it.  It's safer than the alternative. 

Jeb Dickerson   

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

 Baltasar Gracián

Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. 

Oscar Wilde

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting.  Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. 

 Theodore Roosevelt

 He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.  

Jonathan Swift

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.  

Mignon McLaughlin

 There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Top 12 Quotes on Ladies Bag

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles. 

Mae West 

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones. 

Mae West 

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends. 

 Napoleon Bonaparte

 There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. 

Winston Churchill

 When a girl goes bad -- men go right after her.  

Robert Graves

 I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

Elizabeth Taylor

If you can make a girl laugh -- you can make her do anything. 

 Cher

There are no good girls gone wrong -- just bad girls found out. 

 Marilyn Monroe

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.  

Benjamin Franklin

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart. 

 Winston Churchill

 It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. 

 J. D. Salinger

 Big girls need big diamonds.  

Mae West

Inspirational Quotes About Hair

The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave.  The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow. 

Robert Lynd

It was a blonde.  A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. 

Raymond Chandler

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?  

Lily Tomlin

Hair is vitally personal to children.  They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.  

Charles Chaplin

When red headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. 

Mark Twain

This is California.  Blondes are like the state flower or something.  

 Beverly Hills

 I don't care if they call me "baldie" or "chrome dome."  God took an eraser and brushed my head clean.  I'd rather be bald on top than bald inside. 

Joe Garagiola, 1975

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. 

Steve Martin

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. 

Martial

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.  

Anita Loos

Quotes on Blessing and Toasts

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! 

Philip Dormer Stanhope

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. 

Irish Toast

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

Joey Adams

To the lamp of love:  may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.  

Author Unknown  

May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live.

Irish Blessing

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,
And all thy days be as a marriage day.

Francis Quarles

May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks
May your heart be as light as a song
May each day bring you bright
Happy hours that stay with you all the year long.

Irish Blessing

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.  

Irish Blessing

May God grant you many years to live,
For sure He must be knowing
The earth has angels all too few
And Heaven is overflowing.

Irish Blessing

May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you.  

Irish Toast

May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!

Irish Blessing

May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead.  

Irish Proverb

Quotes About Birth Control

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.  

H.G. Wells, 1935

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.  

Chinese Proverb

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception.  I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."  

Woody Allen

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.  

Dora Winifred Black Russell

A birth control pill for men, that's fair.  It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.  

Author Unknown

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.  

Malcolm Potts

 For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.  

Louise Slaughter

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. 

Clare Short

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.  

Bertrand Russell

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.  

Louise Slaughter

Top 12 Quotes About Bicycling

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.  

Ann Strong

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.  

Jacquie Phelan

Cycling is unique.  No other sport lets you go like that - where there's only the bike left to hold you up.  If you ran as hard, you'd fall over.  Your legs wouldn't support you.  

Steve Johnson

If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn't get so many punctures.  Earth's revenge.  

Jo Burt

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country.  A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo.  Even a bicycle goes too fast. 

Paul Scott Mowrer

The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked.  

 Amy Webster

You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.  

Daniel Behrman

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.  

Grant Petersen

Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside.  

Jim Malusa

What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet?  An organ donor.  

David Perry

All bicycles weigh fifty pounds.  A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock.  A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock.  A fifty-pound bicycle doesn't need a lock. 

 Author Unknown

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple.  The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. 

Julie Furtado

To 10 Quotes On Belief

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few really believe.  The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. 

 John Lancaster Spalding

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.  

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.  

Robert Brault

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it.  Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.  

Jeb Dickerson 

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. 

Arthur Schweitzer

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. 

Bertrand Russell

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

Robert Brault

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.  

Robert Brault

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.  

Laurens van der Post

Motivational Quotes On Being Love

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.

Christopher Paul Rubero

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. 

Kay Knudsen

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.  

Author Unknown

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  

Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.  

Author Unknown

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.  

Mark Overby

Out of all the people I've ever met, you're the one who makes me draw those silly little hearts on my papers.  

Author Unknown

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. 

Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. 

 William Carlos Williams

 Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.  

Author Unknown

Top 10 Quotes On Beauty

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  

John Muir

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. 

Ninon de L'Enclos

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.  

Martin Buxbaum 

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

  Christopher Morley

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. 

Chinese Proverb 

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.  

Gilbert Keith Chesterton   

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.  

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.  

John Ruskin

Top 20 Quotes On Baseball

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball.  I'll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.  

Rogers Hornsby

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. 

 Tom Clark 

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.  

Roy Campanella

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.  

George Carlin 

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. 

Vance Law

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. 

Ken Harrelson

Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist.  Throw some ground balls.  More democratic.  

From the movie Bull Durham 

Poets are like baseball pitchers.  Both have their moments.  The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

  Rick Wise, 1974

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. 

Bruce Catton

The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. 

Jim Murray

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world.  If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. 

Bill Veeck

Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.

  Attributed to both Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons

I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. 

Bob Lemon, 1981

Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound. 

Jim Murray

This is a game to be savored, not gulped.  There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. 

Bill Veeck

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.  

Richard Gilman

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. 

Thomas Boswell

Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. 

Mark Kramer

 Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?  

Larry Anderson