life sucks, and then you die...

This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring, For so the holy sages once did sing, That He our deadly forfeit should release, And with His Father work us a perpetual peace.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

This wonder lasted nine daies.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

A wise man sees as much as he should, not as much as he can.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

A pessimist is someone who looks at the land of milk and honey and sees only calories and cholesterol.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with an empty pail and expect him to return with milk. To say that a criminologist understands crime is not to say that we can send him out with a grant or a law and expect him to return with a lower crime rate. He is more likely to return with a report on why he has not succeeded yet, and including the inevitable need for more money, a larger staff, more sweeping powers, etc.

If the mind is open and awake then.... do the gods partake to fill the spaces inbetween the dreamer and his dream.

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.