Notable Desert Fathers

Famous quotes containing the words notable, desert and/or fathers:

“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“Only the desert has a fascination—to ride alone—in the sun in the forever unpossessed country—away from man. That is a great temptation.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)