What if when you die, they ask “How was heaven?” – Author Unknown
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. – H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956
People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped. – Author Unknown
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. – Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, 1935
Sin is geographical. – Bertrand Russell
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot
Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time. – H.L. Mencken
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. – George Santayana
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. – Henry Miller
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. – Samuel Grafton
Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? – Author Unknown
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Maslow
Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that. – Erich Heller
Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are. – Neale E. Howard, The Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas, 1967
