“Yeah, but we're making great time!” Yogi Berra in reply to “Hey Yogi, I think we're lost.”
“But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of heaven.” C.S. Lewis Letters to Malcolm
“You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.” Sacha Guitry
“Happiness in fairyland, like happiness anywhere else, involves an object and even a challenge; we can only admire scenery if we want to get past it. No man can take his ease in Elfland as in the land of the lotus eater. Children are its citizens, and children do not want to take their ease. I hoped to find a castle and an ogre; if I had luck a three-headed ogre, for in Elfland all sport is the defiance of something stronger; our only hunting is the hunting of big game.” G.K. Chesterton in “A Fairy Tale” in Lunacy and Letters
“The record of human cruelty and folly is too hideous for anything but the sense of a corrupted will to come near to a diagnosis.” Northrop Frye The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“If there is one thing I believe in with solid certainty, it is in discussing the abstract question before what is called the practical question. In other words, it is clearing up the matter while it is moral and before it becomes merely political.” G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News January 7 1928, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 15 #5
“What you HABITUALLY THINK largely determines what you will ultimately become.” Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts
“Easy to call, hard to run. Let’s go!” Signature final remark in the huddle by legendary Oakland Raider QB Kenny “Snake” Stabler according to John Madden One Knee Equals Two Feet (And Everything Else You Need to Know about Football)