"In everything one must consider the end."

--

Jean de La Fontaine

“Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.”
“I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.”
“If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.”
“The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2005). “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.
“Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.”
“A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.”
“Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?”
“Art opens the fishiest eye . . .”

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