“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’; aim at earth and you will get neither.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“When you find a big kettle of crazy, it’s best not to stir it.” Dilbert’s boss (right for once) September 9 2009 strip
“There’s always free cheese in the mousetrap.” Announcer in Game 5 of an Ottawa Senators/Toronto Maple Leafs playoff series in 2004
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Epictetus
“Remember that it’s no use confessing that you stole a rope if you forget to mention that there was a horse tied to the other end.”
Bruce Marshall The World, The Flesh and Father Smith
“If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.’
William Morris The Beauty of Life (1880 lecture) later published in Hopes and Fears for Art
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” Sydney Harris
“the real enemy of faith is not doubt, but merely the mental insensitivity that does not see what all the fuss is about.”
Northrop Frye The Great Code
