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• We have left undone those things which we ought to have done
  and we have done those things which we ought not to have done....
• Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?
  Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh....
• T is sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.
  -- John Keble (1792-1866) -- Burial of the Dead...
• Debate raged and stormed, and a Study was formed, And they might have been arguing yet, But a solution was found
  Let's pass the hat 'round, And see how much money we get....
• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
  -- Thomas Paine "Common Sense...
• Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
  -- John Churton Colli...
• But war 's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 187...
• I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his.
  Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles!...
• The structure of the joke is the juxtaposition of the trivial and the mundane.
  We have to reconcile the paradox of it all. The joke mirrors the paradox. -- Woody Alle...