It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that… — Jim Bishop Books Copy Share Image
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who… — Jim Bishop Differences Copy Share Image
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop Fun Copy Share Image
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite.… — Jim Bishop Birth Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they… — Jim Bishop Archaeology Copy Share Image
A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers.… — Jim Bishop Dozen Copy Share Image
“A friend asked what he thought of marriage, and Lincoln said quietly: “My father always said, when you make a bad bargain,… — Jim Bishop Friendship Copy Share Image
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. — Jim Bishop Golf Copy Share Image
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of… — Jim Bishop Cardiologist Copy Share Image
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the… — Jim Bishop Car Copy Share Image
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. — Jim Bishop Book Copy Share Image
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing… — Jim Bishop Future Copy Share Image
Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one… — Jim Bishop Building Copy Share Image
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies… — Jim Bishop Age Copy Share Image
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. — Jim Bishop Books Copy Share Image
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good… — Jim Bishop Bartender Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with… — Jim Bishop Best things Copy Share Image
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage. — Jim Bishop Age Copy Share Image
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old… — Jim Bishop Future Copy Share Image
