The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.

Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.

Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud, He would hardly have us on such terms.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

Copy from one its plagiarism. Copy from two its research.

One that is neither flesh not fish.

If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.

Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 None use instituted forms or ways of worship profitably, but such as find communion with God in them, or are seriously humbled because they do not.

FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.

New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrasing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future. -Rob Lebow.