Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.
All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual