A quote about drinking is a joy forever
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.
Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.
The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.
Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.
When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.
If a person was accused of being a racist when he was young - he said some racially insensitive thing or someone had him on tape calling someone the n-word or whatever - and then you fast forward and he feels, Oh, back then I didn't say this or that. He's not thinking about the person that he hurt when he said what he said, or however it came out, or the effects that it could have had. He's not thinking about it. He's thinking about his own self and how he feels.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.