He’s never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
Your opinions are your symptoms.
Rosencrantz: I don’t believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
What are a friend’s books for if not to be borrowed?
I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.
We’re better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it’ll rain on auntie’s garden party three Sundays from now.
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it’s trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren’t supposed to be in that part of the plan.
For all the compasses in the world, there’s only one direction, and time is its only measure.
The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.
There’s something scary about stupidity made coherent.
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
Between “just desserts” and “tragic irony” we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.