Life and Existence

It doesn’t matter about being born in a duckyard, as long as you’re hatched from a swan’s egg!

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work … I want to achieve it through not dying.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work … I want to achieve it through not dying.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right.

Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.

Hell to ships, hell to men, hell to cities.

See in what peace a Christian can die. dying words to his stepson Lord Warwick

See in what peace a Christian can die. dying words to his stepson Lord Warwick

‘We are always doing’, says he, ‘something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.’

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

And, pleased th’ Almighty’s orders to

Compare yourself to those who are superior to you, and you’ll find yourself lacking; compare yourself to those who are inferior to you, and you’ll find yourself more than good enough.

One can know the world without going outside. One can see the Way of Heaven without looking out the window.

Your tomorrow depends entirely on what you do today.

Your tomorrow depends entirely on what you do today.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Where there is love, there is life.