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W E B Du Bois: Histories of the...

W E B Du Bois: Histories of the...

Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly forgot...

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Willie Mays: In order to...

Willie Mays: In order to...

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and...

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Casey Stengel: Good pitching will...

Casey Stengel: Good pitching will...

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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We cannot tell...

We cannot tell...

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a...

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Not everything that...

Not everything that...

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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It's in the...

It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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The Church became...

The Church became...

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

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Poets and painters...

Poets and painters...

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the...

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The cliche is...

The cliche is...

The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, so that English...

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With our progress...

With our progress...

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call...

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Laughter, while it...

Laughter, while it...

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and...

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A humorist tells...

A humorist tells...

A humorist tells himself every morning, I hope it's going to be a rough day. When things are going well, it's much...

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Wit lives in...

Wit lives in...

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Source: In And I Quote,...

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. . ....

. . ....

. . . if those only wrote, who were sure of being read, we should have fewer authors; and the shelves of libraries...

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How we remember,...

How we remember,...

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our...

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Since it is...

Since it is...

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from...

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I have lived...

I have lived...

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned...

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DICTIONARY, n. A...

DICTIONARY, n. A...

DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic....

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Oh, God, why...

Oh, God, why...

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

Source: In...

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If a few...

If a few...

If a few lustful and erotic reveries make the housework go by as if in a dream, why not?

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