A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
~ Henry James
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Monthly Archives: June 2024
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The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp.
~ William Faulkner
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the purse that fortune should put in his path. The one who finds something no matter what it might be, even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
~ Dieter Rams
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The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I’ll paint one.
~ Gustave Courbet
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How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would mean we deserved it. We do not.
~ Walter Kirn
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