There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the sa...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates t...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, an...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Delay in justice is injustice.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR What is reading, but silent conversation.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoo...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Consult duty not events.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Great men always pay deference to greater.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Cats, like men, are flatterers.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We talk on principle, but we act on interest
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blu...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR George the First was always reckoned / Vile, but viler George the Second; / And what mortal ever hea...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Child of a day, thou knowest not / The tears that overflow thy urn.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Delay in justice is injustice
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR I loved him not; and yet now he is gone / I feel I am alone.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many wh...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a dra...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Ah, what avails the sceptred race! / Ah, what the form divine!
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodope! that are ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates t...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR What is reading but silent conversation.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Cats ask plainly for what they want.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So acti...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
WALTER LANDOR Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
WALTER S. LANDOR We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater tha...
WALTER S. LANDOR Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
WALTER S. LANDOR To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste t...
WALTER S. LANDOR There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
WALTER S. LANDOR Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
WALTER SAVAGE LONDOR I've been loving music all my life.
RANDY SAVAGE Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
RANDY SAVAGE There are no tough guys in wrestling.
RANDY SAVAGE From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy cha...
RANDY SAVAGE I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass th...
RANDY SAVAGE Every sport has its own cast of characters.
RANDY SAVAGE I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and ...
FRED SAVAGE I reject your reality and substitute my own.
ADAM SAVAGE Failure is always an option.
ADAM SAVAGE I arrived at ILM during the final push to finish Episode I, and it was like going to heaven. A shop ...
ADAM SAVAGE That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exporte...
ADAM SAVAGE In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yiel...
ADAM SAVAGE I wouldn't say Jamie is a evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil, and I'm not sure he's a genius
ADAM SAVAGE Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. The...
ADAM SAVAGE We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!
ADAM SAVAGE New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There ...
ADAM SAVAGE I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experi...
ADAM SAVAGE The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until t...
ADAM SAVAGE Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
DAN SAVAGE My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate,...
DAN SAVAGE Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know a...
DAN SAVAGE The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are pl...
DAN SAVAGE Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
DAN SAVAGE I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.
DAN SAVAGE Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don...
DAN SAVAGE I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big c...
DAN SAVAGE Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10...
DAN SAVAGE One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to...
DAN SAVAGE The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civ...
DAN SAVAGE No, I'm not good looking.
DAN SAVAGE Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy...
DAN SAVAGE Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse...
DAN SAVAGE Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
DAN SAVAGE A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effemin...
DAN SAVAGE The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fi...
DAN SAVAGE Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect f...
DAN SAVAGE Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But ...
DAN SAVAGE School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kinder...
DAN SAVAGE Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
DAN SAVAGE I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, on...
DAN SAVAGE I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploit...
DAN SAVAGE Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read...
DAN SAVAGE I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
DAN SAVAGE I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you bef...
SAVAGE GARDEN If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never...
ADAM SAVAGE I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
ADAM SAVAGE I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take ...
ADAM SAVAGE Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for ...
ADAM SAVAGE Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, bu...
TERRY SAVAGE It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of ...
ADAM SAVAGE I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, exper...
ROZ SAVAGE I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, an...
FRED SAVAGE A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they...
BEN SAVAGE Brandon's not Nashville, where you have people recording on every corner, but there are a lot of opp...
BEN SAVAGE I also began hearing the lyrics. A friend suggested I talk to a producer,
BEN SAVAGE A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If...
BEN SAVAGE I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.
BEN SAVAGE The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don'...
ADAM SAVAGE One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet need...
DAN SAVAGE I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition t...
ADAM SAVAGE Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to mak...
RICHARD SAVAGE Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my...
ADAM SAVAGE I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom...
DAN SAVAGE I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material...
ROZ SAVAGE I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou s...
FRED SAVAGE Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythB...
ADAM SAVAGE Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent ...
ADAM SAVAGE Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too l...
ADAM SAVAGE I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGE There's no excuse. Some guys seemed flat and some guys had it.
BRIAN SAVAGE It definitely got the team up and going. When they scored that first one, the [fans] sort of got dow...
BRIAN SAVAGE I think our power play played really well, especially in the second period when we needed some big g...
BRIAN SAVAGE I finally got some bounces to go my way.
BRIAN SAVAGE We were part of the mentoring program with NASA and JPL. We were introduced to the technology and we...
BRIAN SAVAGE He made so many things happen while he was playing.
BRIAN SAVAGE He made some unbelievable saves. Especially on the power play.
BRIAN SAVAGE If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.
BEN SAVAGE We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do i...
ADAM SAVAGE Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So th...
ADAM SAVAGE What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends. ...
RICHARD SAVAGE He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
RICHARD SAVAGE We are worried because there is an abundance of fuel and wind and heat.
MARK SAVAGE From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their ...
ADAM SAVAGE If we?re unable to get the variance to conduct educational programs in the rural district, then (Sho...
JACK SAVAGE Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
ADAM SAVAGE I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists lo...
SAM SAVAGE Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics...
ADAM SAVAGE I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for th...
FRED SAVAGE I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
ADAM SAVAGE I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica,...
BEN SAVAGE He doesn't make a lot of racket. It's not like they're going to be there forever.
PHIL SAVAGE Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It&#...
ROZ SAVAGE Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a f...
ADAM SAVAGE I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he&#...
ADAM SAVAGE These girls are an overall loose group and they have a lot of fun together. They work hard and play ...
CHRIS SAVAGE I am not Pele or Maradona
ROBBIE SAVAGE In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the e...
ADAM SAVAGE Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
ADAM SAVAGE Remember kids, I have life insurance.
ADAM SAVAGE There's going to be some places where you're treated with respect and dignity and some places where ...
DAN SAVAGE It's like wearing ill-fitting garments, ... They don't quite fit.
DAN SAVAGE At that point, I had 50,000 to 80,000 words written about the house. Instead, it became a sequel to ...
DAN SAVAGE One hundred years, ... America will be last. America's always last. Great Britain did away with slav...
DAN SAVAGE So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each ot...
DAN SAVAGE How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that wa...
DAN SAVAGE I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
DAN SAVAGE I felt sad for D.J.,
DAN SAVAGE I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like...
DAN SAVAGE Our people have been so important to us. We thought it was important to help them find their next jo...
DAN SAVAGE I wish she weren’t so noisy, but I’m willing to endure the noise to have her with me.
SHAY SAVAGE My mate is really, really weird.

She is also absolutely covered in brown, mushy clay.
SHAY SAVAGE Beh reaches up and touches my cheek.
“Love,” she whispers.

“Luffs!” I respon...
SHAY SAVAGE She may be strange; she may not know how to make baskets, and she may be very noisy, but she is my m...
SHAY SAVAGE I don't care if she ever makes a basket that can hold grain, but I want her to be here with me. I wa...
SHAY SAVAGE In the darkness of the cave, there is a light inside her eyes that makes my heart beat faster. I kno...
SHAY SAVAGE I wonder what I will do if she doesn't wake up, and I don't have an answer. As I lie back down next ...
SHAY SAVAGE What we're being told is the potency is greater than ice. That's a little concerning. It's going to ...
ROB SAVAGE You're here to share mementos of a failed relationship and tell your sad story. This is our ninth on...
DAN SAVAGE