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.

November 8, 2025

9 months ago

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

July 27, 2025

1 year ago

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

August 24, 2025

11 months ago

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

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