2009-06-16 09:29:53 - Random Bits and Pieces

I've had various quotes and thoughts lingering in a text file or two, that have been meant as ingredients for post or two. Those dishes however, have sadly not come about. Instead of forcing myself to write something about them but not losing the catalyst that would have begun the reaction, I've decided to collect and dump them in this post. If they inspire you, so much the better.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think,--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.--BEATTIE.

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Cato says, the master of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit," that is, "an oil and wine cellar, many casks, so that it may be pleasant to expect hard times; it will be for his advantage, and virtue, and glory.

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Nihilistically Astute Sesquipedalian

Sesquipedalian = The act or practice of using large words when smaller words will do.

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The magic behind Bridget's Sexiest Beaches is that watching Bridget Marquardt is like watching the joy of a toddler discovering the world, like how doorknobs work, or how food on a spoon is sometimes like an airplane flying into your mouth.

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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie. --ZIMMERMANN.

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I have this dream more often than I'd like to admit.