Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything.

I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.

A baby sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603 Continuing a short series on Romans 8: [Of v. 18] The glory to come far outweighs the affliction of the present. The affliction is light and temporary when compared with the all-surpassing and everlasting glory. So Paul, writing against a background of recent and (even for him) unparalleled tribulation, had assured his friends in Corinth a year or two before this that 'this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison' (2 Cor 4:17). It is not merely that the glory is a compensation for the suffering; it actually grows out of the suffering. There is an organic relation between the two for the believer as surely as there was for the Lord.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

We may with advantage forget what we know.

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

What harm in drinking can there be, Since punch and life so well agree?

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

You can send a message around the world in 1/7 of a second; yet it may take several years to move a simple idea through a 1/4 inch of human skull.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.