“How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you’re doing it?”
Dennis the Menace, quoted in NCC Overview Winter 2002
“If this physical world is all, then it is a closed hell in which we are confined like prisoners in chains, condemned to watch the other prisoners being slain.”
John Updike quoted in Huston Smith Why Religion Matters
“Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.”
Novalis, quoted in George Macdonald Lilith
“the beasts of the wood themselves, which have no human reason or soul and that know so much more than we.”
Lord Dunsany
“The inner courtyard boasted a fountain, a stretch of lawn and some comparatively unobjectionable early baroque cloisters.”
Hans Hellmut Kirst The Night of the Generals [and credit translator J. Maxwell Brownjohn for rendering that "damning with faint praise" insult so well]
“I’m an entrepreneur and a capitalist. I like to spin straw into gold.”
Actor Dan Aykroyd, quoted in Ottawa Citizen October 20, 2000
"He's human all right. He's got to be. No other critter on earth would make such a fool of himself."
Bull Harris (about Sherrif J.P. Harrah) in El Dorado
“Possunt quia posse videntur” [“They can who think they can” or “They can because they believe they can.”]
Virgil, quoted by Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning