The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Eddie Cantor

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Emma Carleton

The distinguishing mark of man is the , the instrument with which he does all his mischief.

George Orwell

I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual... God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don

Darren Aronofsky

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

John Milton

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

Blake Shelton

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Eberhard Arnold

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Kanye West

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

David Sedaris

Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.

The Talmud