Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.