It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. - Anthem for Doomed Youth.

quotes

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. -George Bernard Shaw.

In my end is my beginning.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must error.

Who first beholds the light of day In Spring's sweet flowery month of May And wears an Emerald all her life, Shall be a loved and happy wife.

The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now.

Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl; Serenely full the epicure would say, "Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day."

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig of your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shell-fish to yourself. I have no wish to waste my appetite.

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.