Bupers Online Quotes & Sayings

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Excavations at Ai Khanoum on the northern border of modern Afghanistan have produced great quantities of Greek inscriptions and even the remnants of a philosophical treatise originally on papyrus. One of the most interesting is the base of a dedication by one Klearchos, perhaps the known student of Aristotle, that records his bringing to this new Greek city, Alexandria on the Oxus, the traditional maxims from the shrine of Apollo at Delphi concerning the five ages of man:

In childhood, seemliness
In youth, self-control
In middle age, justice
In old age, wise council
In death, painlessness — Robin Lane Fox

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice. — Vance Havner

I had an incredibly nasty retort ready that involved his mother and the U.S. Navy. — Rachel Hawkins

I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals; it is a matter of staying the course, being consistent and persistent, and making it happens. — Urijah Faber

What could be more heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones. — Eckhart Tolle

The forecast for tonight is alcohol, low standards, and poor decisions. — Laura Kreitzer