Sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first.
Daniel Defoe
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Sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first.
Daniel Defoe
Nothing proves so taxing in attempts to explain as simplicity.
Matthew Keaton
Nothing attributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose.
Mary Wallstonecraft Shelley
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
Ray Bradbury
Repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
John Steinbeck
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordiantley possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.
Edgar Allen Poe
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. Henry (from The Last Leaf, my absolute favorite short story)
If advice is given where advice isn't asked, its antithesis will followed to the letter.
Matthew Keaton
When the answer is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
It is a fair even-handed noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection and disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistably contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens
Sleep and love are very sweet, song and dance with trippling feet, yet a time comes when they pall, you can have enough of all.
Homer, The Iliad (W.H.D. Rouse translation)
Marvelous is that history that outlasts its future.
Matthew Keaton
whatever they say they will make money at it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by beer good
oh and one other thing Beer dear. Did you notice that Umberto himself ended up by mentioning....the templars! :lol: :banana: :lol: