Archived Quotes

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,

and urge doing.

I am content with knowing,

if only I could know.

I can’t help but laugh at how perfect I am.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

The most incomprehensible thing

about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Your technique is atrocious.

Make America Great Again.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than

it is loved by the good.

All things are artificial artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Often it does seem such a pity

that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Being yourself is the most important thing you can do.

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's,

if you are excellent,

everybody wants to be in your line.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved

I do not expect the house to fall

but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing,

or all the other.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen,

but a man who loves me as a woman.

I don’t know where I’m going from here,

but I promise it won’t be boring.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned

an invisible government owing no allegiance

and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

It does not matter how you came into the world,

what matters is that you are here.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature,

nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

The difference between the almost right word

and the right word is really a large matter

'tis the difference between the lightning

bug and the lightning.

In preparing for battle,

I have always found that plans are useless,

but planning is indispensable.