Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.
John Derbyshire
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.Rick Warren
The secret is not to care what anyone thinks of you.
Julie Burchill
The sure way to be disappointed is to trust easily.
Dorothy Williams
You can have an affection for a murderer or a sodomite, but you cannot have an affection for a man whose breath stinks — habitually stinks, I mean.
Dorothy Williams
You can have an affection for a murderer or a sodomite, but you cannot have an affection for a man whose breath stinks — habitually stinks, I mean.
George Orwell
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
We are all born American. We die French.
Evelyn Waugh
William Blake
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
We are all born American. We die French.
Evelyn Waugh
ReplyDeleteCan you give the sources of the Russell and Waugh quotes?
Sorry, no. The Waugh quotation I read in his letters, I think. I came across the line from Lord Russell via John Derbyshire.
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