edollmeyer’s most recent Quotables

A London lady sat next to him at this party ... What will you do if it turns out you're wrong? she asked. I mean, what if -- uh -- when the time comes, you should meet Him? What will you say? His bright, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contemplated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.'

Happiness is a Warm Puppy.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

...if you are in love—that’s a good thing—that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.

The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears, or the sea.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

The Bronx is up, the Battery is down, and home is this way.

I am a Londoner, a village boy within the greater city. I do not feel British. I do not even feel English. I feel a Londoner. Born and bred here; lived and worked here; content to die here; I am a Londoner.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get an answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.)

When a woman says “what?” it's not because she didn't hear you, she’s just giving you a chance to change what you said.

"When I despair, I remember that all through history, the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a long time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."

How old would you be if you didnt know how old you are?

Destruction is easy, but what have you created?