Quotes

Hunting

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.   Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as… Read More ›

Girlfriends

If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.   Orson Welles George Orson Welles ( May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director,… Read More ›

Tavern

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.    Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin…. Read More ›

Politics

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.    Maya Lin Maya Ying Lin (born October… Read More ›