I used to think, up until my 40's, that 'a stitch in time saves nine' had something to do with a rip in the fabric of the Cosmos and would therefore ask "nine what?" I need to find profundity in the mundane instead of in the profound. That may be the secret of life...
Or, 'sometimes I sound like a sanctimonious p***k. Being aware of this makes me 'mindful. Doing something about it would make me Buddah. Now, what was the question again?'
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."- John Wayne
When the Washington Sentinels left the stadium that date, there was no tickertape parade, no endorsement deals for sneakers or soda pop, or breakfast cereal. Just a locker to be cleaned out, and a ride home to catch. But what they didn't know, was that their lives had been changed forever because they had been part of something great. And greatness, no matter how brief, stays with a man. Every athlete dreams of a second chance, these men lived it.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”