“It is not nothingness that is incredible. It is existence. Death would be a logical alternative to life, but it is a preposterous sequel to it.” John Robson
“if I can’t be a Shining Example to you, let me at least be a Horrible Warning!”
British journalist Jan Struther (creator of Mrs. Miniver) to her own daughter on the subject of untidy rooms
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Albert Einstein
“Sex is the mysticism of materialism. We are to die in the spirit to be reborn in the flesh, rather than the other way around.”
Malcolm Muggeridge Tread Softly for you Tread on my Jokes, 1966 (quoted in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
“We are not living in the delicious intoxication of the successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after.”
Aldous Huxley Ends and Means
“I have always thought that if the game was worth playing at all, it was worth making some effort to play it correctly.”
Bobby Jones
“this world does not explain itself.”
G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy
“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”
John Wanamaker