Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edmund Burke: 'All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edmund Burke: 'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edmund Burke: 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.' Read More Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edmund Burke: 'All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edmund Burke: 'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edmund Burke: 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Quote Interpretation 5 10/21/23 Edith Wharton: 'If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.' Read More