SundayNov 16, 2025
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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states—Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
There are two kinds of fools: one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Benedict Nightingale speaking of Dean Inge: [William Inge] handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a terrible clang.
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