S.G. Browne Quotes

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.

Death is birth into the realm of the spirit.

I'm telling you right now, you'll drop dead if you prohibit what God is doing!

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.

All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

If you've never been in a dumpster coated with industrial waste while someone stabs you with a piece of sharpened rebar, then you probably wouldn't understand.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

Live one day at a time, unless you can figure out how to live two.

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

God is Love, my friends- nothing more, nothing less.

It does not matter if you believe in God, because God believes in you.

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

Live each day as your last, and tomorrow is forever

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.