Fadley Auto Quotes

#1. The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

Camille Paglia

#2. All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Paul Claudel

#3. Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.

Augusta Scattergood

#4. It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#5. Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#6. Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

Laozi

#7. We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

W.G. Sebald

#8. Yesterday I bought myself a new, very sharp kitchen knife.
And I managed to cut my finger within 5 minutes of getting home!
Those plastic packages are bloody dangerous!!!

Gary Edward Gedall

#9. Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.

Billy Graham

#10. May I not safely credit her assertions? Will it not be easy for me to forget her sex, and still consider her as my Friend and my disciple? Surely her love is as pure as She describes. Had it been the offspring of mere licentiousness, would She so long have concealed it in her own bosom?

Matthew Lewis