Sir V Pritchett Famous Quotes
"All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory."
There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.
Sir V Pritchett Quotations
"If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice."
Heraclitus
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Loomis Pound
"'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'"
J R R Tolkien
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Sam Ewig
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
"I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves."
Joe E Louis
"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Martin Luther King Jr
"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."
Mark Twain
"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
Anon
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.
Theodore Isaac Rubin