"A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas -- on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor -- unless he means something else, quite different -- is a rogue ..."

-- Storm Jameson

#Mean Quotes #Honor Quotes #Fleas Quotes

“The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.”
“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”

Source : Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.45
“Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.”
“God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.”
“How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him”
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.”

Source : George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press
“Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.”
“So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.”

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