Rudyard Kipling, on building gardens
“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.”
Rudyard Kipling, on building gardens
“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.”
Thucydides, on power
“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.”
A.E. Housman, on knowledge (1892)
“The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.”
Soren Kierkegaard, on life
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
Daniel J. Boorstin, on writing
“I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren’t open that early.”
Here is a list of events for the Scholastic Journalism Division of AEJMC at the 2013 Conference in Washington, D.C., in August: (more…)
Juvenal, on wisdom
“Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.”
Juvenal, Satire III, 113
“They wish to know the family secrets and to be feared accordingly.”
Juvenal, on knowledge
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”