"History, that excitable and unreliable old lady."

-- Guy de Maupassant

#History Quotes #Old Lady Quotes

“Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.”
“Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.”
“The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.”
“Hope, to me, is wishing for something good to be true. I believe it is inherent in all of mankind to hope, not because we need to escape where we are, but because we have souls - and those souls were made for something greater than this world. I write about it so often because I think it compels us all. I want to make songs that people at any intellectual level can feel stirred by. Hope is the basest of human feelings to me, the feeling that all emotion springs from.”
“If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.”
“It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.”
“War is a blessing compared with national degradation.”
“Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.”

Source : Saint Bonaventure, Aeterna Press (1881). “The Life of Christ”, p.99, Aeterna Press

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