Patrick's quotes

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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,048 people liked it

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,542 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,402 people liked it

"In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it.

Most people will tell you that the once upon a time happened in a land far, far away, but it really depends on where you are. The once upon a time may have been just outside your back door. It may have been beneath your very feet. It might not have been in a land at all but deep in the sea's belly or bobbing around on its beck."
— N.D. Wilson (Leepike Ridge)

5 people liked it

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
— G.K. Chesterton

76 people liked it

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: christianity
103 people liked it

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

tags: cheese, poetry
661 people liked it

"Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies."
— Augustine of Hippo

42 people liked it

"Take up and read, take up and read."
— Augustine of Hippo

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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
— Augustine of Hippo

160 people liked it

"Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all."
— Isaac Watts

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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
— Plato

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"There is truth in wine and children"
— Plato (Symposium and Phaedrus)

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"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
— Plato

tags: people, play
28 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
942 people liked it

"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."
— Socrates

tags: friendship
36 people liked it

"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
— P.G. Wodehouse

73 people liked it

"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
— P.G. Wodehouse

tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
36 people liked it

"I always advise people never to give advice."
— P.G. Wodehouse

tags: advice
22 people liked it

"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when". "
— P.G. Wodehouse

23 people liked it

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god
546 people liked it

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth
808 people liked it

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance
575 people liked it

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: convictions, criticism
453 people liked it

"Lady Astor to Winston Churchill—
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."

His reply—
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: alcohol, classic-insult, drunk
173 people liked it

"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: best
116 people liked it

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
94 people liked it

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. "
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue
85 people liked it

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare
453 people liked it

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
— George Washington

116 people liked it

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
— George Washington

35 people liked it

"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”"
— Francis Schaeffer

6 people liked it

"The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars."
— Francis A. Schaeffer (Art and the Bible)

tags: art, christianity, imagination
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"The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest."
— Martin Luther

tags: animals, dogs
20 people liked it

"There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books."
— Martin Luther

tags: books
19 people liked it

"A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."
— Martin Luther

tags: --symphoniae-iucundae-
17 people liked it

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: age, humor, old, wisdom
262 people liked it

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: cynic
33 people liked it

"For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
— H.L. Mencken (H.L. Mencken on Religion)

tags: humor
20 people liked it

"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
— H.L. Mencken

9 people liked it

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational, life, work
224 people liked it

"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

tags: men-, women
48 people liked it

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-Lord Peter Wimsey, Gaudy Night (1935)"
— Dorothy L. Sayers

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"I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking."
— Dorothy L. Sayers

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"She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight."
— Dorothy L Sayers

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"How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks."
— Dorothy L. Sayers

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"He was being about as protective as a can-opener."
— Dorothy L. Sayers (Gaudy Night)

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""The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.""
— Mortimer J. Adler (How to Speak How to Listen)

tags: books, great
5 people liked it

"...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
— Mortimer J. Adler (How to Read a Book)

tags: discipline, freedom
2 people liked it