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.

August 22, 2025

1 year ago

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

January 29, 2025

2 years ago

Ordinary men usually manage public affairs better than more gifted fellows. The latter are always wanting to appear wiser than the laws,

August 9, 2025

1 year ago

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

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