April 14, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain
April 12, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” Alexander Pope
February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Martin Mull
January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.” H.L. Mencken
January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Make it a rule never to withhold or conceal from yourself anything that may be thought against your own thoughts. Vow it! This is the essential requirement of honest thinking. You must undertake such a campaign against yourself every day.” Friedrich Nietzsche
January 15, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Music makes people happier, and it doesn’t harm them. Most things that make you feel better are harmful. It’s very unusual. It’s like a drug, that doesn’t kill you.” Fran Lebowitz
January 14, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.” Fran Lebowitz
January 13, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn’t make up yourself – a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.” Fran Lebowitz
January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.” William Osler
