"Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide; If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you."

-- Richard de Bury

#Book Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?”
“Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.”
“True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.”
“In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.”
“The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.”
“The Beatles will exist without us.”
“The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.”
“What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us.”

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