My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober. – G. K. Chesterton Category: Patriotism
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. – Guy de Maupassant Category: Patriotism
Americas state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that treason is morally worse than murder or rape. – William Blum Category: Patriotism
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. – William R. Inge Category: Patriotism
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Adversity
Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals. – Bo Bennett Category: Success
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – George Eliot Category: Jealousy
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Attributed to Goethe, by Huebsch Category: Boredom
