In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
For with G. D. , to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
God has a plan and God is in control of everything
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
Her heart's too hurt. . . you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.