The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

G. K. Chesterton

The thing that would astonish anyone coming for the first time into the service quarters of a hotel would be the fearful noise and disorder during rush hours. It is something so different from the steady work in a shop or a factory that it looks at first sight like mere bad management. But it is really quite unavoidable...by its nature it comes in rushes and cannot be economized. You cannot, for instance, grill a steak two hours before it is wanted; you have to wait till the last moment, by which time a mass of other work has accumulated, and then to do it all together, in frantic haste. The result is that at meal-times everyone is doing two men's work, which is impossible without noise and quarreling. Indeed the quarrels are a necessary part of the process, for the pace would never be kept up if everyone did not accuse everyone else of idling. It was for this reason that during rush hours the whole staff cursed like demons.

George Orwell, Down and Out in P

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

Tim O'Brien

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Aristotle

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jos

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

Samuel Johnson

Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.

Wil Zeus

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Max Schmeling

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Roland Barthes

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

John Ciardi