W.S. Gilbert Quotes
I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.
The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.
My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.
Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.
The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.
To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.