Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2007/02/11/the_last_word.php
Sunday, February 11, 2007
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb’d Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
—William Cowper
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
—Evelyn Waugh
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
—Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
—George Santayana
Only the educated are free.
—Epictetus
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
—Edmund Burke
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
—Sir Winston Churchill
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
—John Milton
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
—J. R. R. Tolkien
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
—Michel de Montaigne
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
—Ambrose Bierce
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
—Plato
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. Milne
It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations.
—Friedrich A. Hayek
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
—Walter Bagehot
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
—Heinrich Heine
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
—H. L. Mencken
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
—James Thurber
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
—Friedrich von Schiller
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
—Seneca
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
—Anne Morow Lindbergh
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
—Soren Kierkegaard
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
—William Bradford
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man’s ingratitude.
—William Shakespeare