and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires...

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Mark Twain

What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.

Anon.

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

Joanna Southcott

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

Mark Twain

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

(Edward A. Murphy Murphy's Law

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Samuel Johnson

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Laurence J. Peter

The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.

Mark Feuerstein

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

Salman Rushdie

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Eugene Delacroix