Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk
Wednesday March 12th, 2025

Malcolm Muggeridge Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Mar 24, 1903
  • Died: Nov 14, 1990

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge was an English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy. As a young man, Muggeridge was a left-wing sympathiser but he later became a forceful anti-communist. He is credited with bringing Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West and stimulating debate about Catholic theology. In his later years he became a religious and moral campaigner.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. art, God & greatness

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it. humor

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. religion

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. aging

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. religion & society

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. strength

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see. failure

Travel, of course, narrows the mind. travel

St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2025

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. 3 quotes from John Millington Synge

3 quotes from John Millington Synge

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. 28 views from William Butler Yeats

28 views from William Butler Yeats

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 quotes from Dave Barry

27 quotes from Dave Barry

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 thoughts from Winston Churchill

74 thoughts from Winston Churchill