Reese's Half-Hidden Quote Blog

Nothing will seem long to those that read to pass the time.

East coast skeptics recognize that knowledge is limited, and this troubles them deeply. West coast skeptics recognize the same thing but find it liberating.

I detest a man who knows that he knows.

Religions are for the most part bad, but not religion.

Dieu me perdonnera, c'est son métier. ['God will pardon me, that's what he does.'--my translation]

For all their obvious merits, the healthy always disappoint.

We are all anxious to imitate the faults of great men whenever we find ourselves unable to imitate their virtues.

I believe if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it.

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

There's an old saying in business: no indictment, no problem.

Some men are by nature insatiable in drinking wine, others are born cormorants of books.

A man first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he was born.

Christianity was true in so far as it had fostered beauty.

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

I was looking for a job and then I found a job and Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.

It is a complex fate to be an American.

The end of a novel is like the end of the world; it is good to put it off.

Vita militum est male vivere et bene bibere.

There's problems in these times but woo! none of them are mine