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“Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.”
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“You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.”
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“It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.”
Source : Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.47, U of Nebraska Press
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“All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it”
Source : Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”
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“It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.”
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“I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.”
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“Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties.”
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“This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.”
Source : "Joe Klein’s Turnip Day" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2006.