[The Pigeon had learned something about [women] from his eight sisters, and if over the years he had absorbed only this one thing, it would stand as vindication that a boy does not suffer needlessly from growing up in a house with eight sisters. That...
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
As long as a language lives, the people will not perish.
They are not all cooks who carry long knives.
A pearl is worthless as long as it is still in its shell.
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.
A loan long continued usually confers ownership.
Happiness that lasts too long spoils the heart.
Do not stay too long when the husband is not home.
To win a war quickly takes long preparation.
A pearl is worthless as long as it is in its shell.
All are not cooks who walk with long knives.
Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains.
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind.
Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would relax with the comic books and fictions. All in al...
while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.
God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.
Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise
Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason ...
