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• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
  -- H. G. Well...
• Those who won't think will have it done for them.
• Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
  -- Thomas A. Kempi...
• There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
  -- Sean O'Casey -- The Plough and The Sta...
• In the midst of life we are in death. -- Book of Common Prayer -- The Burial Service
• Age, n.: That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, but others judge us by what we have already done.
  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
• Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. -- Book of Common Prayer -- The Litany