The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. – Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Category: Effort
Slumps are like a soft bed. Theyre easy to get into and hard to get out of. – Johnny Bench Category: Effort
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. – Albert J. Nock Category: Learning
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith Category: Knowledge
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. – Elinor Wylie Category: Fear
