And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.

What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.

It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.

An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er!"

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I see the wrong that round me lies, I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries, The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings I know that God is good!

I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

People never say, "It's only a game", when they're winning.