People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985
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The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
—Orson Welles, 1953The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbArt, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928