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We live in...

We live in...

We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us...

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Too many moralists...

Too many moralists...

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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A successful man...

A successful man...

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at...

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Man has an...

Man has an...

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

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I finally figured...

I finally figured...

I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man...

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Clothes make the...

Clothes make the...

Clothes make the poor invisible. . . . America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever...

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My life has...

My life has...

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.

Source: From Charades,...

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The ordinariness of...

The ordinariness of...

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Source:...

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As the final...

As the final...

As the final step, pollsters tell us how the public reacted to it, which becomes the agreed version whether the event...

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Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust.

Source: Alternative epitaph; in While Rome Burns, Our Mrs. Parker...

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I was fired...

I was fired...

I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...

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And there was...

And there was...

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...

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What has Athens...

What has Athens...

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Source: According to Tertullian, faith was...

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An optimist stays...

An optimist stays...

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year...

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Beauty and wisdom...

Beauty and wisdom...

Beauty and wisdom make a rare conjunction.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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A wise man...

A wise man...

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Source: In

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Predetermine the objectives...

Predetermine the objectives...

Predetermine the objectives that you want to accomplish. Think big, act big, and set out to accomplish big results!...

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Not everything that...

Not everything that...

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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The paradox of...

The paradox of...

The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society...

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The world changes...

The world changes...

The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way . . . people...

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