Famous quotes containing the words quoted and/or traditions:
“Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a “joke.””
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)