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.

October 7, 2025

1 year ago

…since the affairs of the world are subject to change and to a thousand and one different accidents

December 2, 2025

11 months ago

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

July 12, 2025

1 year ago

Do not let the ingratitude of many men deter you from doing good to others.

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