W.S. Gilbert Quotes

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker."

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Passion makes every detail important.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I'm watching.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.