The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there.
I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.
That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell’s backyard into a play-ground.
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race’s steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit’s way – the optimist’s way.
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain’t so.
Nothing is so ignorant as a man’s left hand, except a lady’s watch.
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it’s all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
If the metrics you are looking at aren’t useful in optimizing your strategy – stop looking at them.
All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.
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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.
The solution to our water problems is more rain.
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.