Punishable Crossword Quotes & Sayings

All men dream, but nor equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. This I did. — T.E. Lawrence

This was the age of the industrial revolution, science was becoming the new religion and it was therefore natural that large numbers of the medical profession firmly believed in a mechanistic explanation for madness... Insanity was a disease and thus naturally something that doctors alone were qualified to treat. — Neil Evans

Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense. — Jonathan Franzen

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. — H.L. Mencken

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. — Lloyd Alexander

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion. — Sheila Ballantyne

Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music. — Aleister Crowley

I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty. — Charles Bukowski

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. — Sallust

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves. — Helio Gracie

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire. — Peter J. Daniels

The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love. — Jud Wilhite