Hawkstone Follies Quotes & Sayings

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune,
Where there's no fear of greater ill to come. — Ovid

We indulge in semantics and slippery-slope rhetoric to excuse injustice. We read a few verse about women in a vacuum of literalism and prideful laziness. — Sarah Bessey

The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the feeling of the people. The world may have been misled by Jawaharlal Nehru's own international projection, which in fact had no reality on the ground. — Subramanian Swamy

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive. — Cassandra Clare