Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
John Mortimer – Charade
Exquisite Horror
E
Start and Achieve
S
To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.
John Mortimer – Charade
Habitual Chains
H
The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
John Mortimer – Charade
Unrehearsed Play
U
Life is a play that does not allow rehearsals.
John Mortimer – Charade
Judging Courage
J
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
John Mortimer – Charade
Practical Action
P
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
John Mortimer – Charade
Grow with Troubles
G
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
John Mortimer – Charade
Casting Shadows
C
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
John Mortimer – Charade
Inconvenience of Change
I
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
David Lodge – Changing Places
Cynicism and Intelligence
C
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.
David Lodge – Changing Places