Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was an American writer, poet, and playwright. She was a member of the American modernist movement and a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. She was also known for her acerbic wit.

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers,… the first greatest [favor you can do them]...is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

Esquire, November 1959

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

The Paris Review, 1956

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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The best way to put the shortcomings of society, and, indeed, the whole of mankind, in their proper place is to joke about them.

Nicolas Chamfort

When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

Faith and reason are indeed interdependent. One of the great secrets of the universe is that reason leans on faith every bit as much as faith leans on reason.

Scott Hahn

For he will render to every man according to his works: to those . . . who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

Paul the Apostle

Progressivism will hollow out your religion and wear its skin like a trophy.

Auron MacIntyre

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John the Apostle

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.

Jesus Christ

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with it.

John Henry Newman

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca the Younger

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

John Paul II

The basic requirement for the understanding of the politics of change is to recognize the world as it is. We must work with it on its terms if we are to change it to the kind of world we would like it to be.

Saul Alinsky

For the spiritual power of a sacrament is like light in this way: . . . if it passes through the impure it is not defiled.

Augustine of Hippo

If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.

Siddhartha Gautama

It is not ‘progressive’ to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

Francis (Pope)

The logic and rational explanation of a natural phenomenon—however comprehensive it may be—always makes an abstraction of that phenomenon.

Mattias Desmet

The problem is not repenting of our sins, not being ashamed of what we have done.

Francis (Pope)

A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known—that’s sin.

Jordan Peterson

Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.

Scott Adams

From an economic standpoint, some education has great value, some has no value and some can even have a negative value.

Thomas Sowell

Few people are . . . bold enough to apply [reason] relentlessly . . . to kings and ministers, to men in high places. And if we don’t, we’re doomed to remain mediocre.

Nicolas Chamfort

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