Wit & Wisdom

“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the

hunger for it is.” Writer Nadine Gordimer, quoted in GoodReads.com

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with

its grandfathers.” Historian Lewis Mumford, quoted in Country Living

“Ideas are like rabbits. You

get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you

have a dozen.”

John Steinbeck, quoted in the Vashon-Maury Island, Wash., Beachcomber

“The real hell of life is that everyone has

their reasons.” Director Jean Renoir, quoted

in The New Republic

“At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; at 45 they are caves in which we hide.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted

in Forbes.com

“The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.” Essayist Geoffrey Madan, quoted in TheBrowser.com

“We call it ‘Nature’; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be ‘Nature’ too.”

Poet Denise Levertov, quoted in BrainPickings.org