Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison
Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch it to be sure. – Murphy’s Law
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag
If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, Wed encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box. – Ogden Nash
Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. – M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
