Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
-- Edward Abbey
-- Edward Abbey
Related:
- Life is cruel? Compared to what?
--
Edward... - Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.
Edward... - The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks
to swallow.
Edward... - The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician,
not an artist. -- Edward... - Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
Edward... - One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
--
Edward... - Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that
God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Edward Gibbon (1734... - It is better to be feared than loved, more prudent to be cruel than
compassionate.
Niccolo... - Love is man's delusion that one woman differs from another -
still, man is better off than woman; he marries later...
From the same category:
- The intellect of the wise is like glass;
it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. --... - One of the problems I've always had with propaganda pamphlets is that they're
real boring to look at.
They're just badly designed. People from the left... - Hey -- These are my own ideas, not my employer's. Don't blame them.
. --... - To do two things at once is to do neither.
-- Publius Syrus (42 BC)
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Maxim... - Someone can always be found, lurking about out there in the bushes
somewhere,
who can tell you what you intended to say far better...
