quotes for cheerleaders

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything - except his own mistakes. ~Author Unknown



I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912



After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. ~W.C. Fields



Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body. ~Osho



I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. ~Renita Weems



A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. ~Henry Giles



Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~Frank Crane



Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth



Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb



I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them. ~Washington Irving



Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. ~Quentin Bell



I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details. ~Bill Veeck



Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ~John Lubbock



The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. ~Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft



I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. ~George Bernard Shaw



It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men... ~Job 4:13



Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ~Lord Byron



Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~Logan Pearsall Smith