from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.”
– Edward Abbey, 1927-1989, American, author, writer, essayist
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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
W. Somerset Maugham
this old man
tears come so easily
to this old man
a scene from a film
a phrase in a book
a song on the radio
the tears uncontrollable
flooding down his cheeks
the associations the memories
life is so beautiful
it is so sad
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, president
“When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.”
Roger Scruton, English, philosopher, author
“…kakistocracy — rule by the worst”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“We really are seeing kakistocracy — rule by the worst”
Paul Krugman, journalist, twitter feed Feb. 2, 2018
A Ballad of Old Yue (translation)
another translation from the Chinese by Mary Tang on her blog Life is But This
“one-third (95 out of 289) of all American Nobel Prizes in the Sciences have been earned by Immigrants to the United States.”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“Not that anybody asked, but one-third (95 out of 289) of all American Nobel Prizes in the Sciences have been earned by Immigrants to the United States.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, twitter feed, Jan 30, 2018
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”
Leonard Durso 