Sunny In Philly Quotes & Sayings

God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing. — M. V. Heberden

The "small goodness" from one person to his fellowman is lost and deformed as soon as it seeks organization and universality and system, as soon as it opts for doctrine, a treatise of politics and theology, a party, a state, and even a church. Yet it remains the sole refuge of the good in being. Unbeaten, it undergoes the violence of evil, which, as small goodness, it can neither vanquish nor drive out. A little kindness going only from man to man, not crossing distances to get to the places where events and forces unfold! A remarkable utopia of the good or the secret of its beyond. — Emmanuel Levinas

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. — W. Somerset Maugham

But since death is inevitable we don't have to deal with it (it'll deal with us when it decides to). What we do have to deal with is the psychic, physical, and fusion diseases wrought during our so-called lives as byproducts of the elemental clash. In other words we're all terminally psychotic and no doctor, hospital, pill, needle, book or guru holds the cure. Because the disease is called life and there is no cure for that but death and death's just part of the set-up designed to keep you terrified and thus in bondage from the cradle to the crypt so ha ha the joke's on you except there's no punchline and the comedian forgot you ever existed as even a comma. — Lester Bangs

The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved. — Nick Hornby

Dear Christ! the very prison walls Suddenly seemed to reel, And the sky above my head became Like a casque of scorching steel; And, though I was a soul in pain, My pain I could not feel. — Oscar Wilde

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many. — Louisa May Alcott

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross. — Vance Havner

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. — Tomichan Matheikal