General Sayings

A lot of folk who have lost faith in God it's a very healthy thing because the God they lost faith in was probably an idol anyway.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!

The minnows swim about so freely, following the openings wherever they take them. Such is the happiness of fish.

Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant.

But among the blessed immortals uncontrollable laughter went up as they saw Hephaestos bustling about the palace.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

I want to tell you something but good taste. Restrains me.

I do not dare to speak in a loud voice, I fear to disturb the people in heaven.

My darling son now will not leave my knee, He's scared that I will go away again.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

Has made a shuttlecock of my heart, and set it spinning.

Full weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely.

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

If she had been a few years younger, what a fool she would have made of me had she thought it worth her while.

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.