Quotes Library

June 3, 2025

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

E. E. Cummings (1884–1962), American poet, 1×1 (1944), no.10, Jay p.107

Do you think that’s a fair assessment of you, and all other politicians?

Why is it that persons who have made a mark in one profession believe they are competent to judge others of a different profession? Do you ask your doctor to rate your lawyer? Your baker to do a performance review on your butcher? One thing is certain: some poets are idiots.


More Quotes

April 4, 2025
To criticize one’s country is to do it a service…Criticism, in short, is more than a right
January 16, 2025
[On Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom] A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics.
March 20, 2025
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Page 37 of 63