Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is lifes true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. – Franz Grillparzer
We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much. – Robert Bianco
I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldnt pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until theyd drunk up all their money. – Fred Ward
If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused. – Oswald Chambers
