Quote #10456
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Quote #15462
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the...
Quote #4676
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Quote #11718
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are...
Quote #6915
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he...
Quote #5873
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found,...
Quote #14413
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common...
Quote #3037
Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He’s one of the few...
Quote #11703
I’m perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn’t abbreviate anything except...
Quote #17984
It’s never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise.