Pointedly Syn Quotes & Sayings

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel,
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. — Edmund Spenser

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. — Ernest Cline

If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert. — Alexander Hamilton

We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people. — Pope Francis

I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center. — Thomas H. Cook

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde. — Diana Trilling

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part. — Oscar Wilde

But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips. — Catherynne M Valente