roger chillingworth quotes

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. ~Mark Twain


To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. ~Oscar Wilde


If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener


Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. ~John Lahr


The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. ~Author Unknown


They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did. ~Red Cloud


Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared. ~Robbins B. Stoeckel


The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ~John Gay, The Beggar's Opera


The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew. ~Author Unknown


Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb


Modern man is just ancient man... with way better electronics. ~Author unknown, "A Short History of Breakfast," from a Jack in the Box tray liner, 2006


Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. ~Author Unknown


Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal


If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. ~Phil Pastoret


In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf


Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. ~Vinton Cerf


Americans like fat books and thin women. ~Russell Baker


This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~From the television show Beverly Hills 90210, spoken by the character Steve Sanders


I like my beers cold and my homosexuals flaming. ~Homer Simpson, from the television show The Simpsons