The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ~Jacques Barzun, God's Country and Mine, 1954
He not busy being born is busy dying. ~Bob Dylan
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers. ~Albert Camus
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. ~Franklin P. Adams
A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right. Author Unknown
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. ~Mell Lazarus
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? ~John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960
There is one armor that the world of men and women, as a world, has never yet put on. The churches have long bungled with its fastenings, but the world has gone unfended, and few have been those in whose hands the mystical sword of the spirit has shone with daily use. This armor, waiting to be worn, is the armor of brotherhood and sacrifice, the world of unselfishness, a conquering sword, with the power, where used, to unite the world in love. And there are none who may not put it on. ~M.A. DeWolfe Howe
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. ~Robert Fripp
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ~William R. Inge
A dogma will thrive in soil where the truth could not get root. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ~Peter De Vries
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ~Arthur Somers Roche
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ~Carol Shields
The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. ~Heywood Broun
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. ~Lewis Mumford
No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~Terry Pratchett
There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. ~J.J. Greene
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ~Susan Sontag
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ~Carl Sagan