Balver Cartoon Quotes & Sayings

Dogmatism increases in direct proportion to a person's inability to prove a point. — Donald J. Walters

United States spends more on pet grooming than it does on fusion research. — Brian Cox

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts. — Mark Twain

The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.- The Illustrated London News, July 10, 1920 Issue. — G.K. Chesterton

There are a whole lot of things
whose names I do not know
and I'd like to tell you about them
in the sky your hair solemnly draws away
kinds of rain one no longer sees
nuts Saint Elmo's fire
sun lames whispered nights
cathedrals too
which are the carcasses
of large gnawed horses
spat by the sea from far away
but still worshiped by people
a whole lot of forgotten things
a whole lot of dreamed things — Aime Cesaire

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama. — Mitch Albom

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in. — Katharine Whitehorn

I realized that my father's absence is our slippers. In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves. — Abraham Verghese

Puberty flicked a switch inside of them and dreams were replaced by hormones and college prep courses and varsity sports while I continued to look for faeries in the woods behind my house. — Brian James

you are the authority figure in your life. — Martha N. Beck

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt