His face was filled with broken commandments.
Good women are no fun. . . The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i. e. , Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
The best things in life are free - and $19. 95.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
Failure has gone to his head.