It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. – Alice James Category: Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. – Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Failure
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. – Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Men
There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring. – John Selden, "Parson," Table Talk, 1689 Category: Fairies
