Category: Friday Quote

Friday Quote – H.L. Mencken

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and the other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even … malicious.

Friday Quote – Brandon Sanderson

WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea of of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.

Friday Quote – Milton B. Medary Jr

It must sing of music, sculpture, color, architecture, landscape design, and the arts of the workers in brass and iron, ceramics and marble and stone – each a part of a chorus, each adding beauty to the others.

This was an inscription in the museum for Bok Tower in Lake Wales, FL. If you have the chance to visit, you should.

Friday Quote – Rudyard Kipling

You talk o’ better food for us, an’ schools, an’ fires, an’ all:
We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!

Excerpt from Kipling’s poem “tommy”