“ God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 65
“ Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer… its anti-intellectualism… its puerile hymns… and its faith-healing… are made to order for King Kid America. ”
- Florence E. King- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.7K
- 1