Quote #2925
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Quote #15848
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not...
Quote #6732
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Quote #8830
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always...
Quote #20866
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any...
Quote #11661
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary...
Quote #12036
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own...
Quote #31828
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Quote #21193
Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Quote #21241
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to...