“Never confuse movement with action.”
Ernest Hemingway
Damon Runyon (the character who delivers the line is “Sam the Gonoph” in “A Nice Price” in The Best of Damon Runyon)
“Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.” - Fr. Andrew Greeley (quoted by William F. Buckley Jr. in National Review Sept. 15 1997
“Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.” Emo Phillips
“If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.”
Peter Medawar
“History is philosophy, teaching by examples.”
Dionysius Halicarnassus
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.”
Joseph Story
“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” Luke 16:10