Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 April 2014

Credo

All old wives' chatter, cottage wisdom. No poem is profound.
- Basil Bunting, 'A Note on Briggflatts'

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Bibliosophistry

Bibliophiles are not uncommon in Leiden, but bibliophiles made wise by reading are as rare there as anywhere.
- David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

So what?

Two words, guaranteed to repel any manner of mediocrity masquerading as conventional wisdom.
- Dracula (according to Sky Living)