What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. ~ Aldous Huxley #quote

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. ~ Marshall McLuhan #quote

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ~ Lao-Tzu #quote

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ~ Kahlil Gibran #quote, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. ~ Stephen Leacock #quote, Why I refuse to play Golf

All that spirits desire, spirits attain. ~ Kahlil Gibran #quote, "The Poet of Baalbek"

His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended. ~ Stephen King #quote, Wizard and Glass

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. ~ Seneca the Elder #Quote

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. ~ John Locke #quote

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. ~ Franz Kafka #quote

Advertising is the greatest form of the twentieth century. ~ Marshall McLuhan #quote

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. ~ Charles Franklin Kettering #quote

Until they become conscious, they will never rebel. ~ George Orwell #quote, 1984

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ~ George Santayana #Quote

Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by. ~ Source Unknown #quote

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. ~ Seneca the Elder #Quote

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. ~ John Lennon #quote

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. ~ Bruce Springsteen, Jungleland #Lyrics

We'll be fighting in the streets with our children at our feet and the morals that we worship will be gone. ~ The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again #lyrics

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. ~ Kurt Vonnegut #quote

Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ~ George Orwell #quote, 1984

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. ~ H. G. [Herbert George] Wells #quote

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. ~ Malcolm X #quote

Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and... for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement. ~ Author Unknown, quoted in The Torch, 1987 September 14th #quote


Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they own their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! ~ C.S. Lewis #quote

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright #quote

That government is best which governs least. ~ Henry David Thoreau #quote


He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #quote

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~ Voltaire #quote

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. ~ Seneca the Elder #Quote

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. ~ George Orwell #quote


Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. ~ Gunther Grass #quote

Try to enjoy the here and now, the future will take care of itself somehow. ~ Howard Jones, Life In One Day #Lyrics

Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same. ~ Jim Croce, Recently #Lyrics

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening.  Heard one person starve.  I heard many people laughing.  Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter. ~ Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall #Lyrics

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. ~ Lao-Tzu #quote

Wisdom is found only in truth. ~ Johann von Goethe #quote

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #quote

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. ~ Katharine Hepburn #quote

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same. ~ Elton John, Understanding Women #Lyrics

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. ~ Gene Roddenberry #Quote


Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ~ Voltaire #quote

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. ~ William Shakespeare #Quote

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.  ~ James Russell Lowell #quote

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. ~ Jonathan Swift #quote

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. ~ Gore Vidal #quote

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys. ~ George Orwell #quote, Shooting an Elephant

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells? ~ Mahatma Gandhi #quote