Joseph Brodsky Quote #25977 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on...
Immanuel Kant Quote #13 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness...
Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967) Quote #8278 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Beaumarchis Quote #15239 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only...
Chinua Achebe Quote #24605 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking...
Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623 Quote #1709 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be...
Thomas Carlyle Quote #8618 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the...
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts" Quote #7899 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time Quote #7835 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Edmund Burke Quote #7735 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even...