George William Curtis quotes

" The future has a way of arriving unannounced. " # Past

" Happiness lies first of all in health. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power

" This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. " # Age and Aging

" Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. " # Sports # Excellence # Books - Reading

" It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. " # Love

" Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. " # Age and Aging

" Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings. " # Committees and Meetings # Football # Violence

" Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. " # Excess # America # Admiration

" The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. " # Cats

" In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.) " # Debt # Drugs # Alcohol and Alcoholism