Chrestomathy Quotes

#1. The number of men sitting at Atlanta and Leavenworth for revolting against the extortions of the government is always ten times as great as the number of government officials condemned for oppressing the taxpayers to their own gain. (Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, pp.

Murray N. Rothbard

#2. As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

Plutarch

#3. In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

Laozi

#4. Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Paul Eldridge

#5. No more slave States and no more slave territory.

Salmon P. Chase

#6. I pulled out my mp3 player and stuck the buds in, and letting out a big breath, I started to scroll through my music for something appropriate to kill by. John Tesh, it is.

Derekica Snake

#7. When she kissed him this time it was hungry, intoxicating. He let one hand track down her body, feeling her close. "I want you, Yasmin," he said, his breath ragged. "Badly.

Barbara DeLeo

#8. My mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

Tehmina Durrani

#9. Damn," I hiss. "I'm sorry to hear about your grandpa." There's so much more I want to say. But there's some invisible barrier there between us created by the years we've spent apart. He

Julie Murphy

#10. You
The run
The kiss
The night
New day
New love
New dreams
Its right

Jose N. Harris

#11. The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Joseph Hume

#12. Blake . . . it's inevitable," I said, repeating the words I'd learned. "You've seen it on the horizon. You know what's coming. Paradise is always lost."
"That's a convenient turn of phrase," he said. "But paradise is never lost. Only destroyed.

Heidi Heilig

#13. Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

Etty Hillesum

#14. If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.

Bindu

#15. Without Justice, no realm may prosper.

Pythagoras

#16. Control your desires as if your life depended on them, then your life will do.

Nityananda Das