We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.

Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it, not having it, to confess your ignorance.

A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.

A man spoke frantically into the phone: "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!" "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No, you idiot!" the man shouted. "This is her husband!".

Extraordinary: it is the "extra" that make us more than ordinary.

I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way.

Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.