Quotes of William Ralph Inge - somelinesforyou

“ A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ There are two kinds of fools: one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ There are two kinds of fools: one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too… ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too… ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. ”

- William Ralph Inge
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