“What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.”
Bertold Brecht, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“I had a great idea this morning but I didn’t like it.”
A piece of “Samuel Goldwyn apocrypha” quoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 28, 2004
“These old wild images [of centaurs and mermaids, noble in their human parts] included a crucial truth. Man is a monster. And he is all the more a monster because one part of him is perfect.”
G.K. Chesterton “Questions of Divorce,” in Alvaro De Silva, ed. Brave New Family Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men & Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage & the Family
“‘He’s... he’s an extraordinary man.’”
Chief Inspector Dreyfuss re Jacques Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark