James Branch Cabell quotes and words of wisdom

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
Found in the topic Pessimist.

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."
Found in the topic Temptation.

"Patriotism is the religion of Hell."
Found in the topic Patriotism.

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
Found in the topic Fear.

Interesting Quotes

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elder

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.Alfred Hitchcock - British movie director (1899 - 1980)