Posted on December 16, 2017December 16, 2017 “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that somebody may be looking.”—H. L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956
Posted on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?”—Thornton Wilder, American playwright & novelist, 1897-1975
Posted on July 21, 2017July 21, 2017 “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891
Posted on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 “We shouldn’t maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880
Posted on June 4, 2017 “Actors are the only honest hypocrites.”—William Hazlitt, English drama critic, 1778-1830
Posted on May 24, 2017May 24, 2017 “The gods use us mortals as footballs.”—Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC
Posted on May 9, 2017May 9, 2017 “We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman author, 1st century BC
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