Quotes 23 Apr 18

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Sonnets_ [1609], Sonnet 104, line 1

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. William Shakespeare. All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Tis suBstantial happiness to eat - WS, As You Like It.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
William Shakespeare _As You Like It_, Act II, Scene 1, line 12

“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!’-Nikita Khrushchev,
Communist leader of USSR 1956

The more intellectual portion of the population increasingly sees freedom as the right to suppress the opinions of those with whom they strongly disapprove. And the greatest freedom of all, the one that is most ardently desired, is the freedom to be protected from the consequences of one’s own improvidence and foolishness.- Theodore Dalrymple, http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/04/19/reading-the-state-of-britain-with-roger-scruton/