Jonathan Rowe > Jonathan's Quotes

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Sir Bedevere: "Tell me, what do you do with witches?"
Crowd: "Burn, burn them up!"
Sir Bedevere: "And what do you burn apart from witches?"
Villager: "More witches!”
― Monty Python and the Holy Grail

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
― Seneca

“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
― Seneca

“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
― Karl R. Popper