Dr. Hurlbutt’s quotation of the day for February 25, 2012

Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2012, at 3:00 pm, by Dr. Allardyce Hurlbutt.

“How much depends on the way things are presented in this world can be seen from the very fact that coffee drunk out of wine glasses is really miserable stuff, as is meat cut at the table with a pair of scissors. Worst of all, as I once actually saw, is butter spread on a piece of bread with an old though very clean razor.”

  —  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99).