The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCDon’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886