Christmas Every Day

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: “Twice is plenty enough.”

“Fortuitous” does not mean “fortunate.” It means “by chance” or “unanticipated”; and if your dictionary tells you that it may also be used to mean “fortunate,” then your dictionary is a scented and brilliantined degenerate in a glossy lavender lounge suit who intends to teach your children criminal ways while you are away at the grocery.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

The Real is that which says to us, “Your preferences have not been considered.” 

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is only a short road that leads from grammatical laxity to cannibalism.

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.