Many who court death have no desire to wed her. \u2014Willaim H. Gass, 1972<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The liar has many friends and leads an existence of great loneliness.
\u2014Adrienne Rich, 1977<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The line between being lonely and being surrounded is porous, and the states are often simultaneous. \u2014Leslie Jamison, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Educating yourself in public is painful, but the lessons stick.
\u2014Peter Schjeldahl, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. \u2014Martin Luther King, 1963<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. \u2014Martin Luther King, 1963<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What the whole community comes to believe grasps the individual as in a vice.
\u2014William James<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Religion is not a safeguard against fear, but a parasite on it. [Summary of Hobbes\u2019 views] \u2014H. R. Trevor-Roper, 1945<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. \u2014Lewis Thomas, 1979<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. \u2014George Orwell, 1949<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sorry. I don’t understand the word sorry. \u2014Computer error message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ditch itself will pace our labors. \u2014Stanley Crawford, Mayordomo<\/em>, 1988, p. 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plans are worthless, planning is invaluable. \u2014Dwight Eisenhower<\/p>\n\n\n\n The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. \u2014G. K. Chesterton, 1901<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are invariably well prepared to fight the previous war. Much of what we dread is really due to the indistinctiveness of outline. The devil is a citizen of every country, but only in our own are we in constant peril of an introduction to him. \u2014Ambrose Bierce, 1902<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is nothing so cruel as panic. \u2014Robert Louis Stevenson, 1878<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think the breaking wave of the present tense is always accompanied by the whitecap of panic. We take the hue of passion of those who are about us, or, it may be, the complementary color. \u2014T. H. Huxley, 1894<\/p>\n\n\n\n The greater part of mankind are gay or serious by infection, and follow without resistance the attraction of example. \u2014Samuel Johnson, 1751<\/p>\n\n\n\n The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination. \u2014John Henry Newman<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing keeps so well as a decoction of spleen. Most people complain of fortune, few of nature; and the kinder they think the latter has been to them, the more they murmur at what they call the injustice of the former. \u2014Lord Chesterfield, 1755<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. \u2014William Hazlitt, 1826<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action. Life would turn to a stagnant pool, were it not ruffled by the jarring interests, the unruly passions of men. \u2014William Hazlitt, 1826<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is nothing so mysterious as a fact clearly described. \u2014Gary Winogrand<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c[The paranoid] style has much more to do with how things are believed than with the truth or falsity of their content. \u2014Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics<\/em>, 1964<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is the small inability to handicap odds which is family to the romantic, the desperate and the insane. Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. \u2014Thomas Browne, 1650<\/p>\n\n\n\n It may prove more easy to dream of giants than pygmies. \u2014Thomas Browne, 1650<\/p>\n\n\n\n A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a tempest. \u2014Thomas Browne, 1650<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vanity often cooperates with curiosity. \u2014Samuel Johnson, 1751<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are a haunted race, fleeing from silence and great spaces, feeling safe only when surrounded by warm comprehensible, chattering humanity like ourselves. Views: 8<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many who court death have no desire to wed her. \u2014Willaim H. Gass, 1972 The liar has many friends and leads an existence of great loneliness. \u2014Adrienne Rich, 1977 The line between being lonely and being surrounded is porous, and the states are often simultaneous. \u2014Leslie Jamison, 2019 Educating yourself in public is painful, but the lessons … Continue reading Aphorisms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1809","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1809\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2014Zora Neale Hurston, 1928<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014Lewis Namier, 1941<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014Mark Rutherford, 1900<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 Thomas Beller, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bagel<\/em>, p 22, 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014William Hazlitt, 1826<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014William Hazlitt, 1826<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 Norman Mailer, An Evening with Jackie Kennedy<\/em>, p 322, 1962<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014Rose Macaulay 1926<\/p>\n