Quotes Library

May 18, 2025

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Hungarian proverb, The Portable Curmudgeon, Jon Winokur, ed. (New York: 1987), p.8

Do you know the song “Happy Days Are Here Again”? If not, you can be forgiven; it was written in 1929. But no political tune has ever topped its upbeat quality

Nobody ever penned a lyric reading “Wise Times Are Here Again” (let alone setting it to music). Belief always trumps doubt, because happiness is its own reward, doubt a dark closet, for some too infrequently entered.


More Quotes

April 12, 2025
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
January 26, 2025
The Confederacy [i.e., the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865] has been done to death by politicians.
October 17, 2025
[When asked what he had done during the French Revolution] I survived.
Page 62 of 122