Quotations

«A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.»

«Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.»

«Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.»

«I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .»

«And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.»

«And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.»

«Don't stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net»

«Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all?s fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he?s no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he?s neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach?d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and tho? you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men?s lives, which he guggles down like mother?s milk.»

«A net will catch more than a pole.»

«Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero»