“If we dismiss the past as dead and not as a country of the living which our eyes are unable to see, then we are likely to become servile.”
“The southern agrarian Andrew Lytle" quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #3 (December 2002)
“Nobody had nothin’ and we all shared it.”
A “poignant comment of a tough old settler” unearthed by one of his students in some old book, quoted by my old high school English and History teacher Stewart H. Bull in his unpublished biography Happy Warrior: Adventures in the Classroom
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“as you know very well, the only conceivable way to play a game is to treat it extremely seriously.”
A character in E.F. Benson “In The Tube” in Roald Dahl, ed. Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories
“There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool.”
“Danish proverb” according to www.hound-dog-media.com
“The wise, I say, may take advice from fools.”
Pandar to Troilus in Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde
“the way that Bear Bryant looked upon football players - ‘Be good or be gone.’”
An author whose name I did not record in National Review April 12, 1993
“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.”
C.S. Lewis Surprised by Joy