"The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages."

-- Horatio Alger

#Age Quotes #Chivalry Quotes #Form Quotes

“You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better.”
“The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.”
“I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.”
“Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.”
“If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.”
“It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.”
“Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.”
“One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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