[T]he departing world leaves behind… not an heir, but a pregnant widow. – Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Other Shore Category: Hmmm
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope Category: Hmmm
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Hmmm
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Hmmm
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. – Colin Powell Category: Speech (freedom of)
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Business
You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures. – Gene Robinson Category: famous
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. – Clive Anderson Category: gardening
