After all, we are all immigrants to the future; none of us is a native in that land. Margaret Mead famously wrote about the profound changes wrought by the Second World War, “All of us who grew up before the war are immigrants in time, immigrants f...
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Nothing ages more than a good deed.
Better a good conscience without wisdom than wisdom without a good conscience.
I hate a jovial table companion with a good memory.
If you commence a good action, leave it not incomplete.
Try to be in good company, even when you are alone.
Good company on the road is the shortest of short cuts.
A good reputation is better than a golden girdle.
All things are becoming to good people.
A good friend is often better than a brother.
Money will buy you everything but good sense.
You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
Many modern Christians think of the New Testament as a book outside of history, something that was just suddenly there. Historians of Christianity, able to trace its gradual authorship and formation, nonetheless typically find themselves describing t...
Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resur...
Life is amazingly simplified,” she wrote in her journal, “now that the recalcitrant forsythia has at last decided to come and blurt out springtime in petalled fountains of yellow. In spite of reams of papers to be written, life has snitched a coc...
You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning. Its inconsistencies and anonymity, its seeming indifference to you and every other individual is really what makes it a safe haven for individu...
In an expansive attempt to establish a foothold among California's intelligentsia and create America's first truly national newspaper, The New York Times launched a slimmed-down West Coast edition in October 1962... The result in LA was a sorry steps...
[first lines] Melanie: New patient? New Dental Patient: Yes, I was referred by my lawyer about veneers. [big grin] Melanie: You're a new patient, that's all I need to know. Fill this out so we know who to contact in case we loose you in the chair. Ne...
It's the same donkey, but with a new saddle.
