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.

April 24, 2025

2 years ago

Generosity is part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it

January 28, 2025

2 years ago

It is no use blowing the trumpet for the charge, and then looking around to find nobody following.

September 15, 2025

1 year ago

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong—but that is the way to bet.

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