Logo
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which r

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. – Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Miscellaneous
category

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. – Ansel Adams

Category:
Miscellaneous

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

Category:
Miscellaneous

The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits. – Albert Camus, Le Suicide philosophique

Category:
Miscellaneous

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana

Category:
Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. – Margot Asquith

Category:
wedding

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Perspective

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Manners

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. – Woodrow Wilson

Category:
Presidents Day