Commonwealth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.

  • I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

  • I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

  • Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

  • Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

  • That's what's nice about being on Comedy Central. You can't show your ***** even if you wanted to.

  • Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

  • When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

  • Mature love is loving, not being loved.

  • Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens...