Quotes Library

September 6, 2025

Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ben Hecht (1894–1964), American journalist, writer, A Guide for the Bedevilled (1947), Seldes p.177

What do you suppose caused the shipwreck? And to what sort of safety?

No doubt Jane Austen would agree that pride can be made to serve the same purpose.

January 29, 2025

1 year ago

Ordinary men usually manage public affairs better than more gifted fellows. The latter are always wanting to appear wiser than the laws,

August 22, 2025

6 months ago

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

July 31, 2025

7 months ago

Conspiracies cannot be hatched without the complicity of others, and for that reason are extremely dangerous.

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