• Donald Miller

    …there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn’t exist, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter.

  • John Wilkes

    Do not ask me, for I am so ignorant that I cannot tell the difference between a king and a knave.

    On being asked to play a table of cards, at a time when he was in dispute with the government and court.

  • Don Paterson (writing as François Aussemain)

    Nothing is ever lost; things only become irretrievable. What is lost, then, is the method of their retrieval, and what we rediscover is not the thing itself, but the overgrown path, the secret staircase, the ancient sewer.

  • Stephen Crane

    Three little birds in a row
    Sat musing.
    A man passed near that place.
    Then did the little birds nudge each other.

    They said, “He thinks he can sing.”
    They threw back their heads to laugh.
    With quaint countenances
    They regarded him.
    They were very curious,
    Those three little birds in a row.