Quotes
Quotes about Sin
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Brasington's Ninth Law: A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned one will take only twice as long.
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
He who sings scares away his woes.
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing.. must drive carefully in each others' corridors.
Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
Tom Delay did bugs exterminate before he did kid soldiers terminate. Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthright about how many died in the last fortnight.
