Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. -Puddleglum in The Silver Chair

C.S. Lewis

The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

Proverb

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Dorothy Parker

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

George Eliot

I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Philip Guedalla

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

David Alan Grier

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Ralph J. Cudworth

He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever in melodrama too, but too broad--too broad. When the mother died, he took the port-wine business.''The port-wine business!' cried Nicholas.'Drinking port-wine with the clown,' said the manager; 'but he was greedy, and one night bit off the bowl of the glass, and choked himself, so his vulgarity was the death of him at last.

Charles Dickens

One is rated by others as he rates himself.

Proverb

It takes a son of a bitch to change a habit.

Stephen King

I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.

Margaret Thatcher