Frank Blaichman Quotes & Sayings

Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired? — Lord Byron

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap ... Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standard, no security, no simple acquiescence. Naturally, every one does not feel this equally strongly. — Hermann Hesse

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is. — Sarah Parcak

There ought to be an ordinance that a man can't work for the same outfit as his wife; hell, even in the same city. — Philip K. Dick