Saturday, January 31, 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009

Quote of the Day

We are weighed down, every moment, by the
conception and the sensation of Time.
And there are but two means of escaping
and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work.
Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us.
Let us choose.



Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Quote of the Day

The whole history of civilization is strewn
with creeds and institutions which were
invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.



Walter Bagehot

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Quote of the Day

To follow, without halt, one aim:
There's the secret of success.



Anna Pavlovna Pavlova

Monday, January 26, 2009

Quote of the Day

The real test of a man is not how well he plays the
role he has invented for himself, but how well
he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.



Jan Patočka

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Quote of the Day

There has to be a certain enigma in it,
which does not immediately catch the eye.



Maurits Cornelis "M.C." Escher

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Quote of the Day

The welfare state is not really about the welfare
of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.



Thomas Sowell

Friday, January 23, 2009

Quote of the Day

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in
winter. Who would think that those
branches would turn green
again and blossom,
but we hope it,
we know it.



Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Quote of the Day

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that
have been taxed in the past and putting taxes
on things that haven't been taxed before.



Art Buchwald

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Quote of the Day

You can't get rid of poverty
by giving people money.



Patrick Jake O'Rourke

Monday, January 19, 2009

Quote of the Day

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records.
A man can't retire his experience. He
must use it. Experience achieves
more with less energy and time.



Bernard Mannes Baruch

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Quote of the Day

We expect merit will determine who will play
and who will lead. But coaches and athletics
administrators themselves are not always
selected, it would appear, entirely on their merits.



Dr. Myles David Brand

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Quote of the Day

No man can sit down and withhold his
hands from the warfare against wrong
and get peace from his acquiescence.



Woodrow Wilson

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Quote of the Day

You can't get much done in life if you only
work on the days when you feel good.



Jerry Alan West

Monday, January 12, 2009

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Quote of the Day

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying
to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first
learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.



Charles Osgood Wood, III

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Quote of the Day

Talent is God-given. Be humble.
Fame is man-given. Be grateful.
Conceit is self-given. Be careful.



John Robert Wooden

Friday, January 09, 2009

Quote of the Day

There are a lot of great movies that have won the
Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that
haven't. You just do the best you can.



Clint Eastwood

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Quote of the Day

When I grew up in the 60's, your hair had to
be straight and you had to be skinny and
have no boobs, and it was like not my era.



Bernadette Peters

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Gotta Love This One!

Had to post this pic from Richard Quick's website.

If you're not one of the thousands who've already visited the site, click here.

Take a few minutes and read the heatfelt comments from swimmers, swim parents, coaches, friends, and relatives.

This man has been a positive influence on an incredible number of lives in his swimming and coaching career.

6'8" Sandbar Shark


Quote of the Day

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between
childhood and old age. It is the apparent
aim of modern industrial societies to
reduce this period to a minimum.



Thomas Stephen Szasz

Monday, January 05, 2009

Quote of the Day

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive
so great, and no tonic so powerful as
expectation of something better tomorrow.



Orison Swett Marden

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Quote of the Day

There are two kinds of men who never amount
to much: those who cannot do what they are
told and those who can do nothing else.



Cyrus H.K. Curtis

Friday, January 02, 2009

Quote of the Day

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not
back again. Wisely improve the present.
It is thine. Go forth to meet the
shadowy future, without fear.



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Quote of the Day

We spend January 1 walking through our lives,
room by room, drawing up a list of work to be
done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year,
to balance the list, we ought to walk
through the rooms of our lives... not
looking for flaws, but for potential.

Ellen Goodman