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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.
I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.
If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.
I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.
[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.
Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.
Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.
One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.
I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.
She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.
I love her beyond the universe and back. I love her from this world to the next.
Sometimes things aren't what they seem and even a Seer can't see what's commin'.
Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.
Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.