Doubtfully Normal Quotes & Sayings

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense. — Evan Esar

So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but it is a mystery. Well, let me tell you this: I'm actually one hundred feet tall even though I only appear to be six feet tall. You ask me for proof of this. I have a simple answer: it's a mystery. Just accept my word for it on faith. And that's just the logic theists use in their discussions of evil. — Quentin Smith

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it. — R. H. Tawney

O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! — Madame Roland

When you love someone, you can't help but pray for them. — Elizabeth George

Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tears
Shed o'er her, beloved for years?
Who shall say the dark dismay
Which her dying caused that day? — Christina Rossetti

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within. — Howard Nemerov

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish. — Benjamin Franklin

As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view? — John Brisben Walker