Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

In a way, the world?view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

George Orwell

Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us.

Source Unknown

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

Margaret Courtney

God pity me now and all desolate sinners Demented with beauty!

Patrick MacDonogh

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Andrew Greeley

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

Jane Austen

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

Cyril Connolly

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

Michael Polanyi

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

David Ogden Stiers