Excoriated Def Quotes

#1. [A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie)

A.A. Milne

#2. I was sophisticated enough to know that the written word is no mirror of the writer's character, that the amateur, though a selfless angel, may show himself a pompous ass, while the professional, a monster of ego, can convince you in a phrase that he has the innocence of a child. I

Louis Auchincloss

#3. When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It

Garry Kasparov

#4. Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

Ai Weiwei

#5. Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead