W.S. Gilbert Quotes
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.
There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.
For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.
The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.
Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.
People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.
The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too.
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
