The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
— Samuel Johnson
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.