The long arm of coincidence.

Your desk looks like an explosion in a paper factory.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found; The Redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little Footsteps lightly print the ground.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Relationships can be boring - not people!

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

People generally quarrel because they can't argue.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.

Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.

What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part: That may be claim'd again which was but lent, And should be yielded with no discontent, Nor surely can we find herein a wrong, That it was left us to enjoy it long.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.