Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

This world is such an abode that if those present here
Have their wits entire, they will never weep for the absent ones.

And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

[http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang/ Article in The Idler Magazine] - broken link, see: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090718214232/http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang Internet Archive copy] instead

Ghé mắt trông ngang thấy bảng treo,
Kìa đến thái thú đứng cheo leo.
Ví đây đổi phận làm trai được,
Thì sự anh hùng há bấy nhiêu!

Stabbed by the steeple,
scalped by the chapel,
the choir's got my tongue,
and the preacher's got my Adam's apple.

Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a [air quotes] "Genocidal Fuckhead … [air quotes again] with bunny rabbit ears". But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as "Pope Gutless Bastard I.

None but the sun can display the sun.

Like the poet Po Chüyi, the Chinese scholar "utilized Confucianism to order his conduct, utilized Buddhism to cleanse his mind, and then utilized history, paintings, mountains, rivers, wine, music and song to soothe his spirit.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

Robyn Douglass - Katherine

I came here to swallow my pride, admit I was wrong, and beg you to come back to work for me again. But then I figured I'd take a moral shortcut and write you a check.

Women sleep so soundly they seem to be dead. Who knows? Women may live in order to sleep.

On the other hand a man admits the energy and control and inspired to strive towards things heavenly and divine

Connie Booth – Polly Sherman

Your laugh is a sudden silvery wave.