E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944 Quote #15680 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right...
Don DeLillo Quote #3869 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules...
Thomas Jefferson Quote #23173 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one,...
Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813 Quote #9500 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his...
James Thurber Quote #5668 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking...
Israel Zangwill Quote #13889 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal...
Charles Hamilton Aide Quote #24760 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to...
Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935 Quote #6772 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents...
Guy Davenport Quote #2118 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to...