Quotes to inspire and reflect

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.

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

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide.

The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures.

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!

All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.

If you want a happy ending it depends, of course, on where you end the story.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better”.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership - not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, ‘there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star’. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.