David T. Wolf Quote #34907 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.
Field Marshall John French Quote #16342 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 To compare is not to improve.
H. L. Mencken Quote #16411 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual...
Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944) Quote #1304 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
William Carlos Williams Quote #15690 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his...
Joseph Conrad Quote #10655 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady...
Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives Quote #4303 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men...
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud) Quote #13322 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to...
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1 Quote #3733 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 There is nothing more practical than a good theory.
Eric Berne Quote #9760 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which...