Miscellanies Clement Quotes & Sayings

There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane. — Kevin Hearne

When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer. — Louis De Montfort

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just
as math is the key
and we will survive or founder, depending on how
well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to
me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth. — Robert A. Heinlein

What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel? — Steve Doocy

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket. — Tim Gunn

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage. — Loretta Chase

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder ... — Ryan Holiday

Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing teacher, gave it a B-minus. Do you know what that does to a a person to get a B-minus in Grief? — Joan Bauer

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards. — Malcolm Wallop

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is taken in the face of partial ignorance as to what its effects will be and involves uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome. — Gilbert F. White