“Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.” — Ben Jonson
Quotations
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Half of the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
— T.S. Eliot
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“We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won’t like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel.” — Charles M. Schulz
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“Retarded artistically. Idiotic in other respects.” — Teacher’s assessment of 12-year-old Keith Moon, Alperton Secondary School, Wembley, 1958
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“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.”
— Manet to Monet, on Renoir
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“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” — Borges
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“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.” — Montesquieu
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“No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.” — John Adams
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“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
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“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” — Iris Murdoch