"But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song."

-- Alexander Pope

#Song Quotes #Long Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.”
“...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?”
“I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.”
“Maybe we all change over time.”
“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”

Source : Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.146, Princeton University Press
“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
“Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.”
“It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.”

Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.7

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