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Jan. 3rd, 2007
... I have plans for world creation, you see...
George Henry Calvert (1803-1899)
"As some of the best things become by perversion the worst - the life-sustaining air itself carrying, when foul, the largest freight of death - so honor, whose name is a promise of purity and elevation, is liable to such warp and debasement as to be turned into a shield of vice and be forced ot entwine itself defensively around dishonor."
And this one too:
George Henry Calvert (1803-1899)
"Men who have betrayed weighty trusts and made shipwreck of honesty cling with a wild, semi-dubious defiance to honor - or rather to the name - and challenge its protection with the same right as a pirate would that of a great nation's flag that he had flung out from his topmast in the agony of defeat."
Samuel Johnson:
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
And of course, all of these quotes are from Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English calendar.
George Henry Calvert (1803-1899)
"As some of the best things become by perversion the worst - the life-sustaining air itself carrying, when foul, the largest freight of death - so honor, whose name is a promise of purity and elevation, is liable to such warp and debasement as to be turned into a shield of vice and be forced ot entwine itself defensively around dishonor."
And this one too:
George Henry Calvert (1803-1899)
"Men who have betrayed weighty trusts and made shipwreck of honesty cling with a wild, semi-dubious defiance to honor - or rather to the name - and challenge its protection with the same right as a pirate would that of a great nation's flag that he had flung out from his topmast in the agony of defeat."
Samuel Johnson:
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
And of course, all of these quotes are from Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English calendar.