Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
George A. Sheehan

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out. Norman Mailer

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Lee Haney

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. Thomas de Quincey

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
Paula Abdul

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy

Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. Chuck Clark

All men are equal before fish.
Herbert Hoover

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.
Henry Winkler

Jesus, like any good fisherman, first catches the fish; then He cleans them. Mark Potter

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods – these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
Neal Barnard

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. Dave Barry

Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain

Fish and visitors smell in three days. Benjamin Franklin

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.
Nellie Bly

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau

Fish recognize a bad leader.
Conan O’Brien

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn’t a lot of music that I don’t like… except for Show Tunes.
Terri Windling

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people. Harry Chapin

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business – writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn’t play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
Barry McGuire

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
Dan Hicks

When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. (Stephen Fry )

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. (Stephen Fry )

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good. (Stephen Fry )

I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.(Stephen Fry )

I could rent a room, paint it black, bolt on a few chains and call it my punishment room, Then have men in posing pouches in the background. (Stephen Fry )

An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.(Stephen Fry )

I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.(Stephen Fry )

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

He would make a lovely corpse. (Charles Dickens )

Funerals are all abstract ceremony. ( Chuck Palahniuk)

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days. ( Garrison Keillor )

True friends appear less mov’d than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not so loud as those that cry for hire. (Horace)

The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the honor of the dead. ( François de la Rochefoucauld)

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it. ( Erma Bombeck)

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth )