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.

December 9, 2025

3 months ago

…the best is often unattainable, and therefore the true legislator and statesman ought to be acquainted

July 26, 2025

7 months ago

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.

March 15, 2025

12 months ago

Men ought to pay a great deal more attention to substance and realities than to ceremonies.

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