Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. – Hervey Allen Category: Maturity
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. – Nicholson Baker Category: Maturity
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. – H. L. Mencken Category: God
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. – Mark Twain, attributed Category: Places
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Category: Art