The barbarians are not at the gates. They are inside the gates – and have academic tenure, judicial appointments, government grants, and control of the movies, television, and other media. Virtually everything that was supposed to make things better made things worse. What has failed is accepted without question by so-called ‘thinking people’ and what […]
Better Quotes
As we grow better, we meet better people.
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
Better to have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
I have now spent fifty-five years in resolving: having, from the earliest time almost that I can remember, been forming plans of a better life. I have done nothing. The need of doing, therefore, is pressing, since the time of doing is short. O God, grant me to resolve aright, and to keep my resolutions, […]
Though I’ve belted you and flayed you, By the livin’ Gawd that made you’ You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
You did then what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better.
No one is any better than you, but you are no better than anyone else until you do something to prove it.
Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart–then you may become somebody.
