James Ellis Quotations

We felt like we played a much better second half. The kids felt good about what they did.

We're a team that does better when we're in a have-to situation where we have to score. I'd almost think this team would be better coming from behind than having a lead and trying to hold it. But when (Prospect) came back and tied it up, we came back and responded.

Justin picked a great night to find his touch. But this was a team effort all the way. Everyone did their part to contribute to the win.

Wiley had to work really hard for his points. We were throwing different guys at him all night and he never got into a rhythm. This is one of the best defensive teams I've ever coached and it showed tonight.

We aren't getting the bounce of the ball at the moment and with a young side you do sometimes worry about that.

We don't have a superstar on the team and I like that. We might have three or four guys score in double figures on any given night because our kids don't have any problem sharing the ball. The overall attitude of this team is great and that has carried us.

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We went there and got a good result. But we know that they have to pick up points to get away from the bottom half of the table.

I've been preaching defense all year and the kids have really bought in. What has gotten us to this level is our team defense. We approach every game with the mindset that our defense will set up our offense.

They're the better team. We had a chance early in the fourth, but they made a stop and held on.

They're a lot bigger than us. They knew how to use their height.

It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.

Snow, sleet, hail, ice, rain, floods. Did I say ice?

I challenged the kids to come out of halftime with a defensive stand. Holding them to two points in the third is what put away the game for us.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

The mind paints before the brush.

Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.

Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.

The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.