Daniel McHugh > Daniel's Quotes

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
― John Dryden

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

“Then as to churches, they are good, I suppose, else wouldn't good men uphold' em. But they are not altogether necessary. They call 'em the temples of the Lord; but, Judith, the whole 'arth is a temple of the Lord to such as have the right mind. Neither forts nor churches make people happier of themselves. Moreover, all is contradiction in the settlements, while all is concord in the woods. Forts and churches almost always go together, and yet they're downright contradictions; churches being for peace, and forts for war. No, no--give me the strong places of the wilderness, which is the trees, and the churches, too, which are arbors raised by the hand of nature.”
― James Fenimore Cooper

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary.”
― Daniel McHugh, The Merchant and the Menace

“Those of strong character and training are chosen by fate. They cannot help but rise to the forefront when their nations are troubled.”
― Daniel McHugh, The Mirror and the Maelstrom

“A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.”
― Daniel McHugh, The Mirror and the Maelstrom

“At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed.”
― Daniel McHugh, The Mirror and the Maelstrom

“Fate is a tricky animal. Those who believe they harness it, often find a difficult beast to master.”
― Daniel McHugh, The Mirror and the Maelstrom

“(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.”
― Daniel McHugh, The Mirror and the Maelstrom

“Why all this death?

You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.”
― Daniel McHugh, The Mirror and the Maelstrom

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso