Mickey Mantle Famous Quotes
"I had it all, and I blew it. (shortly before dying from cancer and other complications of alcoholism)"
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
Mickey Mantle Quotations
"As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes."
Bhagavad Gita
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
G C Lichtenberg
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
J Krishnamurti
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
William Wordsworth
"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it."
Ronnie Lott
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
"Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least."
Jane Welsh Carlyle