Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign. – Théophile Gautier, c.1845, translated from French Category: Fate
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. – Jean de La Fontaine Category: Fate
Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it. – Anthony Liccione Category: Philosophical
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life Category: Habits
The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back. – Jerry Saltz Category: Art
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. – William R. Inge Category: Patriotism