Editor Quotes

I will not coat my words in lumps of sugar
I will serve them to our people with the bitter quinine.

Frank Chipasula

Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.

John W. Campbell

Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!...
Punch, brothers! Punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

Isaac H. Bromley

I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged with the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on,
And mingled into one.
I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the West.

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Ah, we fondly cherish
Faded things
That had better perish.
Memory clings
To each leaf it saves.
Chilly winds are blowing.
It will soon be snowing
On our graves.

John Henry Boner

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste
a little, but too much makes everyone
sick.

Joe Abercrombie

In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.

Robert L. Bartley

Her suffering ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away
In statue-like repose. But when the sun in all his state
Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through Glory's morning-gate,
And walked in Paradise.

I know that when I write, I'm writing for people who can handle high-school math, read at the Grade 12 level, and appreciate subtle humor as opposed to the toilet-bowl kind. I guess that makes the lower cutoff about 17-18 years old.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

David Wong (writer)

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

Dennis Flanagan

I think you learn about yourself through experiences - as many of them as you can manage.

There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.

Robert Silverberg

Whene'er I walk the public ways,
How many poor that lack ablution
Do probe my heart with pensive gaze,
And beg a trivial contribution!

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.

Charles Seymour Robinson

The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life.

Henry Mills Alden

Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.

What is a bore? The answer will vary depending on whether one is at a cocktail party... or the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.

Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.

When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

James Montgomery

It is an old belief
That on some solemn shore
Beyond the sphere of grief
Dear friends shall meet once more.

John Gibson Lockhart

The so-called "General" Crocco, who played an important part as a brigand and Bourbonist leader in the partisan war of 1860-61, was an escaped convict, with thirty offences, ranging from petty larceny to murder, registered against him in the books of the Neapolitan tribunals. He pillaged both Bourbonists and Liberals with strict impartiality.

Eliakim Littell