QUOTES CCIV

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. 

Italian proverb

If you're going to try cross-country skiing, you should start with a small country.

Author Unknown

Great architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystalized in space that lifts our spirits beyond the limitation of time.

Author Unknown

 

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Advice from "The Princess Bride"

The happiest people may not have the best of everything, but they make the best of everything they have.

Author Unknown

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

Gelsey Kirkland

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dorothy Nevill

Let mortal tongues awake, 

Let all that breathe partake,

Let rocks their silence break,

The sound prolong.

From "America the Beautiful"