"Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over With care, and seek good stock for good to cover; And yet the best men make no argument, But wed, for money, runts of poor descent. So too a woman will demean her state And spurn the better for the richer mate. Money's the cry. Good stock to bad is wed And bad to good, till all the world's cross-bred. No wonder if the country's breed declines- Mixed metal, Kyrnos, that but dimly shines."

-- Theognis of Megara

#Country Quotes #Horse Quotes #Men Quotes

“I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.”
“God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.”

Source : John Bertram Phillips, Denis Duncan (1978). “365 meditations by J.B. Phillips for this day”
“Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.”
“The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.”
“I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.”
“From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.”
“In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.”
“My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.”

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