Common sense isn't.
1st try here:
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
2nd try here:
| Quote of the moment |
| [At a funeral service a minister is speaking of the deceased as being] "already with the One" (God). But to her, death was the end of everything. At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing beside a glass of Guinness on a sunny day. |
| ~Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, 1938 ~ |
3rd try here:
| Quote of the moment |
| "There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it." |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii. ~ |
4th try here:
| Quote of the moment |
| Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years. |
| ~ Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the dark Tower came. xxxiii. ~ |
5th try here:
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
6th try here:
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
7th try here:
| Quote of the moment |
| Thou animated torrid-zone. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, To the humble Bee. ~ |
8th try here:
| Quote of the moment |
| A life of only a single day spent in meditation conjoined with wisdom is better than living a hundred years unbalanced and confused. |
| ~Thousands ~ |
9th try here:
| Quote of the moment |
| People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day’s work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably—why, then I don’t think I deserve any reward for my hard day’s work—for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good? |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Nov. 17, 1851, to Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Letters of Herman Melville, eds. Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman (1960). ~ |
10th try here:
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
| Quote of the moment |
| We are idiot, younger-sons of gods, begotten in dotages divine; and our mothers all miscarry. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 180, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Babbalanja, the philosopher. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
Images stored locally for protection of your privacy (unless/until you search with Google). Stomp out web bugs (archive.org).
Copyright © 2000- hal9000[zat]mensetmanus.net
I last touched this page on Saturday, 2007-11-17 at 05:08:35 UTC.