haiku poems about sports

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow



Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. ~Ezekiel 16:44



I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 9



There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor. ~Lord Mancroft, A Chinaman in the Bath, 1974



Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde



Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers



Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. ~Bertrand Russell



We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. ~Robert Fulghum



You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. ~George Sheehan



The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it. ~Author Unknown



The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, the emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky. ~Astrid Alauda, "Office With No Windows"



God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task



The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter



I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~Mark Twain



If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ~Griff Niblack



The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ~Damon Runyon, "More Than Somewhat," in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."



The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. ~Aubrey Menen



You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. ~Polish Proverb