Christopher Dawson Archives - The life and work of a British sociologist and historian of culture. Photograph, biography by Adam Fierro, articles by and about Dawson and bibliography.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Historians The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Historians
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Historians Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Historians
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Historians I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Historians
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Historians Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Historians
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Historians A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Historians
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Historians "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Historians
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba May you never leave your marriage alive. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Historians "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Historians
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Historians "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Historians
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Historians The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Historians
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Historians Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Historians
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Historians I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Historians
