The Useless Digest A Free Weekly dose of Facts, Quotes, History and more - direct to your inbox. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. Bigotry may roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean the half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.