A Quotes
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“A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.”
Source: The Root, the Rod and the Flower
“A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-
And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd
The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!”
Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
“A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.”
Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
“A moment's thinking is an hour in words.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
“A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.”
“A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.”
“A moment's truth can and shall make the world beautiful. A moment's peace can and shall save the world. A moment's love can and shall make the world perfect.”
“A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.”
Source: Martin Chuzzlewit
“A Momentary Flicker by Stewart Stafford
Keeper of pristine candlelight,
In corrupted hourglass time,
Chest-pumped at your "yield"—
So why asset-strip mine?
You claim we shed virginity together,
A lecherous faux-naif purloins truth,
My age will be the years you get—
That collar shall be your noose.
Your crimes are beyond absolution,
Your extant sextant for baleful stars,
Fevered pleas and penitent sighs,
To a confessional's hidden bars.
So why scalpel-slit a seeping scar?
Karma totals defrocked degradation,
A besmeared, hacked-up oil painting—
Damnation's inferno predation.
Your words, woven with deception,
Vanish like smoke from a flame.
From shaded rebirth, I set forth.
I reclaim my dawn, my light, my name.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life”
“A monarch butterfly landed on the towel, its orange wings awash in the afternoon light. A yellow-and-black tiger swallowtail perched atop her still-damp shoulders. One with blue wings hovered over Kaden.”
Source: In the Shadow Garden
“A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.”
“A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.”
“A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.”
“A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.”
“A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.”
Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)
“A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.”
“A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.”
“A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.”
Source: Labor, with Preludes on Current Events
“A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.”
“A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.”
“A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.”
“A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.”
“A monk in drag, an extraterrestrial, and a bonobo ape wander into a
bar…
The world desperately wanted something to laugh about. Something to believe in. Someone willing to try something different. The world took a
big risk, and then it fell in love.”
Source: a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope
“A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.”
Source: The praktikos: Chapters on prayer
“A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma”
“A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“A monk once said: "Imagine being bitten by a snake, and instead of focusing on healing from the poison, You chase the snake to understand why it bit you and to prove that you didn't deserve it.”
“A Monk's life has to do with simplicity, curiosity and compassion - contrary to the popular notion, it has no direct relation to poverty and seclusion.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.”
Source: Name of the Rose
“A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.”
“A monkey could drive this train.”
“A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.”
“A monkey is a much better voter than a socialist. Statistically speaking, if we assume that there are two options to choose from: the "A" and the "B" - the monkey is voting randomly, so its wrong 50% of the time. The socialist, however - is always wrong.”
“A monkey's mind is curious. So we can treasure that; as we are curious too....
Yet meanwhile by simply releasing all attachment or identification to the monkey's chattering we ten merge into the Great Eternal Peace of the All which is One...”
Source: Angel Stories. Angelic Tales of the Universe. Tales 1 through 6.
“A monkey seldom slips on a banana peel.”
“A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away”
“A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.”
“A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.”
“A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.”
“A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.”
Source: Suicide
“A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.”
Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings
“A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.”
“A monster. For a monster will always be enslaved to a master.”
Source: We Hunt the Flame
“A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”
“A monster, John? Or a man who understands the true nature of the human psyche? Who understands that sometimes, to heal, one must break? To guide, one must control?”
Source: The Old Asylum: A Haunting Gothic Psychological Thriller
“A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him”
“A monster's worst fear is of being found.”
Source: Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper
“A monster
Someone who left me in the dark
Someone who darkened me
A million times over”
Source: Rome: Poems