"A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it."

-- Brander Matthews

#Educational Quotes #Latin Quotes #Gentleman Quotes

“Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.”
“I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.”
“What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!”
“No one will love you more than you love your pain.”
“One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.”
“Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.”

Source : William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl
“A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.”
“I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press

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