“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
John Updike
“Pleasant memories was my receipt for a good time well spent.”
wyatt frazier
“Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That You Keep Eating. Remove the Contamination and the Food Allergy No Longer Exists.”
theHealthFoodGuru
“I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“I have no wish for a second husband. l had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.”
Susanna Strickland Moodie
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
Mark Twain
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us”
