Famous quotes containing the words home, defence and/or force:
“Cedar: Now would you tell the court what everybody at home thinks of Longfellow Deeds?
Jane Faulkner: They think he’s pixilated.
Amy Faulkner: Oh, yes. Pixilated.”
—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)
“Education must have two foundations—morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defence for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)