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Sunday 7 July 2019

Quotes Jul 8

... welfare dependency is unjust to those who pay for it, and disastrous for those who wind up trapped in it. - - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.22

"The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit ... The great sin ... the dictatorship of pride ... Pride always means enmity."-  CS Lewis

God permits some to suffer most, that they might
experience the deepest joy.
     --William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
      _Thoughts Of A Christian Optimist_ [1968]

The mind is like the stomach.  It is not how much you
put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
     --Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945)

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.- G K Chesterton

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