“I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.”
Rudyard Kipling
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
15OCT2019 – Quote of the Day
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.
Thomas Sowell
14OCT2019 – Quote of the Day
If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.
Thomas Sowell
13OCT2019 – Quote of the Day
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Thomas Sowell
12OCT2019 – Quote of the Day
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
Thomas Sowell
11OCT2019 – Quote of the Day
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards – and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can ‘make a statement’ by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books?
Thomas Sowell
10OCT2019 – Quote of the Day
Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
John Derbyshire
09OCT2019 – Quote of the Day
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.
John Derbyshire
08OCT2019 – Quote of the Day
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
John Derbyshire
07OCT2019 – Quote of the Day
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it was hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
John Derbyshire