from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation. The same I might add can be said of judging anyone by the friends they surround themselves with.
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
Author: zdunno03
a small world
because as often as we think we change, we remain who we always are
at a meeting
exploring options
talk swiftly changes
when business cards are exchanged
it’s that last name
bells ring
suddenly a call is made
across seas an ocean
seven hours away
and names faces
a world reappears
what was new
is now familiar
a small world
isn’t it
getting smaller every day
and suddenly
you are who you were
who you always
have been
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge”
— Charles Darwin, biologist, geologist, author, English, naturalist
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotatıon
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.”
a variation on a line from Li Po: image of heaven
a light
burns there
in the distance
guiding one home
on the way
toward one’s image
of heaven
A Farewell To Meng Hao-jan On His Way To Yang-chou by Li Po (Li Bai)
A Landscape by Tang Bo Hu (translation)
another translation from the Chinese by Mary Tang on her blog Life is But This
from An Exile’s Letter by Li Po (Li Bai)
on reading books by Ezra Pound
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
“… the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.”
from The Art of Quotation
“Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.”
Hannah Arendt, writer, philosopher
Leonard Durso 