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Post by gator on Jul 26, 2019 4:16:57 GMT
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
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Post by gator on Jul 27, 2019 6:19:48 GMT
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
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Post by gator on Jul 28, 2019 5:16:13 GMT
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
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Post by gator on Jul 29, 2019 4:52:27 GMT
As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, any man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
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Post by gator on Jul 30, 2019 4:44:59 GMT
Backbite, v.t.: To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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Post by gator on Jul 31, 2019 5:04:02 GMT
A sudden, bold, and unexpected question, doth many times surprise a man, and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
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Post by gator on Aug 1, 2019 4:45:08 GMT
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know...I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)
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Post by gator on Aug 3, 2019 1:45:50 GMT
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)
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Post by gator on Aug 3, 2019 8:50:11 GMT
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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Post by gator on Aug 4, 2019 6:06:46 GMT
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by gator on Aug 6, 2019 9:30:39 GMT
The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
L. Frank Baum
(1856-1919)
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Post by gator on Aug 9, 2019 5:43:03 GMT
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)
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Post by gator on Aug 10, 2019 5:08:43 GMT
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)
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Post by gator on Aug 11, 2019 4:53:02 GMT
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Gilbert Chesterton
(1874-1936)
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Post by gator on Aug 12, 2019 9:02:02 GMT
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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