The truth is, as every one kno...

The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.

~H. L. Mencken~

The puritan through life's swe...

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

~Kenneth Hare~

Puritanism: The haunting fear ...

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

~H. L. Mencken~

A puritan is a person who pour...

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

~Gilbert Keith Chesterton~