"Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk."

“The danger is to cling to comfort and custom at a time when events demand breaking away from both. But it is also foolish to jump at every startling moment. Darwin selects primarily for prudent fast-following.”

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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”

“Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.”

“What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.”

“One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”

“I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.”

“I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.”

“When you are about to badger the weak,Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”