roger chillingworth quotes

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate



If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. ~William Tecumseh Sherman



Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb



A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read. ~The Talmud



Ability is of little account without opportunity. ~Napoleon



The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. ~Joan Didion



Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ~John Wainwright



Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software. ~Author Unknown



Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved? ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future. ~Franz Rosenthal, Gambling in Islam, 1975



I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own.... Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine.... it becomes something different in its new setting. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy



Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. ~Author Unknown



If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)



If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun. ~P.G. Wodehouse



To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth



Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~Author Unknown



In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late. ~Kin Hubbard



Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. ~Bion, "Water and Land Animals," Plutarch