Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent.
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.
The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.