Day 1,695: quip, athwart

William Buckley, a thinker of the old school, once quipped that “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling stop.”

The growing peril of national conservatism

Artwork of the day 
Quipe
Anne Truitt
Date: 1984
Style: Minimalism
Genre: sculpture

Word of the day 
quip: a humorous and clever remark:
athwart: across especially in an oblique direction

Quote of the day
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”

― Ovid