Good Morning ADD Irregulars, WSN Cultivators, and all you other wandering souls that might find your way here. Happy Monday my friends! I'll do a post later in the day of some Lenten prayer, but I thought I would return this week to fun with quotes. Today's selection is from Oxymoronica edited and compiled by Mardy Grothe. Mardy has a number of such books and I think I own them all.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G. K. CHESTERTON
Experts - Not so much a trusted category now as a suspect one. Who is praying for your expertise and what are they instructing to include, exclude, minimize or inflate in your opinion. Better to be honest a bout your bias rather than the delusion of thinking you don't possess one.
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times: Resist hyperbole.
Eschew obfuscation. Just smile - I can't even spit out the second word without butchering it.
And...
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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