nathan misfits quotes
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck
The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. ~Richard Steele, The Spectator
It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A "bad night" is not always a bad thing. ~Brian W. Aldiss
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950
Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin
When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent. ~S.A. Sachs
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. ~Philip Gulley
Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ~Wilson Mizner
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. ~Alfred North Whitehead
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. ~Ellen Glasgow
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. ~Albert Einstein
Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. ~W.N. Rieger
Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~James H. West
Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979
A book that is shut is but a block. ~Thomas Fuller
