The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. – Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways, 1965
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you wont get run over. – Miriam Makeba
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. – General Robert E. Lee
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. – William Butler Yeats
