Quote #5323
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
Quote #3318
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
Quote #16268
I dote on his very absence.
Quote #2366
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be –...
Quote #11696
Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is...
Quote #23958
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Quote #24353
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the...
Quote #28960
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s...
Quote #13223
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Quote #26249
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.