Quotes Du Jour

�There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we �can�t bear to throw away.�
- Russell Lynes (1910 � 1991), American editor and critic: �On Collecting� in �Life in the Slow Lane�, 1991.

�Decadent cultures usually fall in the end, and robust cultures rise to replace them. Our own cultural supermarket may eventually be subject to a takeover bid; the most likely challenger being, surely, Islam.�
- Mary Kenny (b. 1944), Irish writer and broadcaster: �Sunday Telegraph�, 1993.

�The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.�
- Havelock Ellis (1859 � 1939), English sexologist and essayist: �The Dance of Life�

�Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.�
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 � 1946), English economist: �The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money�, 1936.