Because I want to be able to find this quote again ...

[sinjun]

... 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.

Comments

[proudsky.livejournal.com]

I really like this one....not gonna tell you where its from, but Im sure you can guess.

"Science-fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blind critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, it's essence has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."

[damara.livejournal.com]

That's a good one too. Yup. I like it.

Did Daniel really do it?