Random Quotations
"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it."
Lord Brabazon
"An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because it is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
John Gardner, Excellence, 1961
"Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone. The dignity and nobility of his life, as well as his happiness, depend on the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries, and the scenery through which it travels."
Joseph Newton