I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843
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Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCDrive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790Life 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, 1857In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969