Food for Thought Page Five

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. G.K. CHESTERTON Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. GEORGE ORWELL Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. HERMAN MELVILLE Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN All happiness depends on courage and work. HONORE DE BALZAC One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. OSCAR WILDE

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Frankly, all I wanted to say to people was this: Have a good look at yourselves and understand how bad and dreary your lives are! ANTON CHEKHOV I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. You will need to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be debated in assemblies. BORIS PASTERNAK The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty, the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases. EUGENE O'NEILL Society always builds well before it can garden finely, for gardening is the greater perfection. FRANCIS BACON

To Page Six

You need Java to see this applet.