#heaven

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#been #brag #church #gentlemen #get

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#claus #democracy #dream #heaven #only

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. ↗

— John Milton

#everlasting #filled #give #heaven #hung

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#always #because #cds #colours #denied

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#been #believe #drunks #earth #go

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven? ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#angels #blessed #choirs #heaven #more

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell. ↗

— George A. Moore

#heaven #hell #remorse

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#gone #heaven #like #sea #ships

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ↗

— John Muir

#coming #day #directions #every #far