Life and Existence

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been .

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like .

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

There has been only one Christian. They caught and crucified him-early.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen .

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this .

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.