Fools, Knaves, Charlatans and Bureaucrats.
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – and I don’t think there really is …
A Joke about Marriage
” Smith meets his old friend Brown and tells him he has decided to get married: ” Who is the …
Life, truth and wisdom.
Life is nothing but a cock and bull story, and one of the best of its kind. Carl William Brown …
Quotations on Bets and Gambling
Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you’d better get used! …
A Poem on Death
Death by Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but …
Rules, life and literature
St. Michael’s Shield of Truth Prayer St. Michael, you are our defender and safeguard against evil. Placeyour Shield of Truth …
William Hazlitt Best Quotations
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another off to the best …
Paradoxical Commandments
In 1968, when Kent M. Keith was a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard, he wrote the Paradoxical Commandments as part of …