Wisdom

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you.

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!''The red plague rid you!''Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!''As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.''Strange stuff''Thou jesting monkey thou''Apes with foreheads villainous low''Pied ninny''Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses.

Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line.

There is no final one.

If your password encrypts your history then its a PASTWORD.

...There occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:'He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.

Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine,' Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.

The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books.

...The clearer the light is, the more it blinds and darkens the pupil of the owl; and the more we look at the sun, the greater is the darkness it causes in our vision ... In the same way, when the divine light of contemplation assails the soul that is not wholly enlightened, it causes spiritual darkness within it.

. . . Anyone who wants to elaborate relevant liberation theology must be prepared to go into the 'examination hall' of the poor. Only after sitting on the benches of he humble will he or she be entitled to enter a school of 'higher learning.

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war.

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.