Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857
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Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCAll progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653