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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The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbDreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750