Detterman Excavating Quotes & Sayings

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now. — Melina Marchetta

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. — Samuel Johnson

But you are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above. — William Shakespeare

How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? — J.M. Coetzee

What I like doing best is Nothing. — A.A. Milne

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. — Aldous Huxley