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 26, 2025

10 months ago

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

January 6, 2025

2 years ago

As democracy is perfected, the office of president [of the United States of America] represents

February 13, 2025

2 years ago

It is a fine thing to face machine guns for immortality and a medal, but isn’t it a fine thing, too, to face calumny,

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