Huneck Mirror Quotes & Sayings

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure. — Harry Crews

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure. — James Branch Cabell

Even death is going to die! — Sally Lloyd-Jones

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. — H.L. Mencken

The Will (without any metaphysical refining) is, That by which the mind chooses any thing. The faculty of the Will, is that power, or principle of mind, by which it is capable of choosing: an act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice. — Jonathan Edwards

We have a saying. My people call it 'choosing the path of fewest lashes.'"
"That's terrible," I murmur; half to myself.
"You mistake 'terrible' for 'different,'" he says. "You have a similar say, do you not? 'The lesser of two evils'? — Rae Carson

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great. — Frank Zappa