“A contest of wills? Surely you’d be disqualified.”
Another of my “witticisms”, from August 20, 2015
“Maybe it’s not the world that’s at fault. Maybe it’s you.”
Jordan Peterson on Instagram Sept. 10, 2021
“Our greatest yet with least pretence,/ Great in council and great in war,/ Foremost captain of his time,/ Rich in saving common-sense,/ And, as the greatest only are,/ In his simplicity sublime.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington”
“That is informative merely about you, madam, not about the problem.”
Nero Wolfe to a client in Rex Stout The Mother Hunt regarding her thought processes.
“The opinions of our enemies come nearer to the truth about us than do our own opinions.”
LaRochefoucauld, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.”
Marcus Aurelius, quoted on Instagram by “dailystoic” September 15, 2021
“I will not shut me from my kind,/ And, lest I stiffen into stone,/ I will not eat my heart alone,/ Nor feed with sighs a passing wind:/”
Alfred Lord Tennyson “In Memoriam” CVIII
“Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 18:3 (KJV)