“None think the great unhappy but the great.” — Edward Young
Quotations
Misc
- The negative space in the eight of diamonds forms an 8.
- William Brewster, leader of the Plymouth Colony, named his children Jonathan, Patience, Fear, Love, and Wrestling.
- Wilfred Owen’s mother received the news of his death on Armistice Day.
- SCHOOLMASTER = SMOTE SCHOLAR
- “I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.” — William James
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“Abstinence from doing is often as generous as doing, but it is not so apparent.” — Montaigne
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“The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.” — William Shenstone, “On Writing and Books,” 1769
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“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.” — Bertrand Russell
History
“It is conceivable that Alexander the Great — for all the military successes of his youth, for all the excellence of the army he trained, for all the desire he felt in himself to change the world — might have stopped at the Hellespont, and never crossed it, and not out of fear, not out of indecisiveness, not out of weakness of will, but from heavy legs.” — Kafka
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“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.” — Baudelaire
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“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.” — Randall Jarrell
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“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.” — Benjamin Disraeli
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“Everybody is somebody’s bore.” — Edith Sitwell