Believe it or not, I am doing a little editing as I go along....!
From Antoine de Saint–Exupéry's Night Flight:
One day an engineer had remarked to Rivière, as they were bending above a wounded man, beside a bridge that was being erected: "Is the bridge worth a man's crushed face?" Not one of the peasants using the road would ever have wished to mutilate this face so hideously just to save the extra walk to the next bridge. "The welfare of this community," the engineer had continued, "is just the sum of individual welfares and has no right to look beyond them." "And yet," Rivière observed on a subsequent occasion, "even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life....But what thing?"
Irish (?) blessing:
May you never forget what is worth remembering, or remember what is best forgotten.
From the placemat at the Kingston Brewing Company, Jan. '98:
– The only acceptable substitute for intelligence...is silence.
– How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?
– Bumper sticker: "So many pedestrians, so little time..."
– Yes, if Snoop Doggy Dog married Winnie the Pooh, he would be Snoop Doggy Dog Pooh.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. – Joseph Joubert (19th century man of letters)
From the Ladies' Home Journal:
– The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows that the average man can see much better than he can think.
from Virginia Woolf's Orlando:
– ...there is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them... (p144)
– Often a dumb hour is the most ravishing of all; brilliant wit can be tedious beyond description. (p151)
– [Genius] resembles the lighthouse in its working, which sends one ray and then no more for a time... (p159)
