W.S. Gilbert Quotes
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?
There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.
Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'
If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'
I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.
The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble.
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.