Life and Existence

Is not this house as nigh heaven as my own?

Is not this house as nigh heaven as my own?

If the triangles were to make a God they would give him three sides.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn’t know how to create a maggot, and he creates gods by the dozen.

Que sais-je?

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn’t amusing herself with me more than I am with her?

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived. Whether you have lived enough depends not on the number of your years but on your will.

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived. Whether you have lived enough depends not on the number of your years but on your will.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

One should always have one’s boots on, and be ready to leave.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less about the imperfections of my garden.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less about the imperfections of my garden.

when asked if she really had nothing on in a calendar photograph:

on being asked what she wore in bed: Chanel No. 5.

One dies only once, and it’s for such a long time!

What does he [God] then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

Methought I saw my late espousèd saint

They also serve who only stand and wait.

When I consider how my light is spent,

Time the subtle thief of youth.

Time the subtle thief of youth.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail.

Just are the ways of God,

The first and wisest of them all professed