| "I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." »Kaleel Jamison |
| "There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool." »L. M. Boyd |
| "Probably to a shark, about the funniest thing there is is a wounded seal, trying to swim to shore, because WHERE DOES HE THINK HE'S GOING" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." »Jorge Luis Borges |
| "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." »Jean Paul |
| "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "Honolulu, it's got everything. sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother." »Ken Dodd |
| "Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand." »Madeleine L'Engle |
| "Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." »George Eliot |
| "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up." »Muhammad Ali |
| "Here's a good tip for when you go to the beach A sand dollar may look like a nice cracker that someone left, but trust me, they don't taste like it." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind." »Wilfred Wilson Gibson |
| "To see a world in a Grain of sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." »William Blake |
| "Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." »Robert Service |
| "If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge." »Napolean Hill |
| "He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand." »Constance Naden |
| "Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment." »Mark Twain |
| "The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, 'Hey, I'm Vine Man.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." »Arabic Parable |
| "The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream." »Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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