March 2008
73 posts
“The punishment we suffer, if we refuse to take an interest in matters of...”
– Plato
“A book is a mirror: if an ass peers in do not expect an apostle to look out”
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Poverty is a shame amongst men, an imprisonment of the mind, a vexation of every...”
– Sir Walter Raleigh
“Much would have been gained if through timely advice young people could have...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“The art of life is the avoidance of the unattainable”
– Hector Hugh Monro ‘Saki’
“I have seen flowers come in stony places / And kind things done by men with ugly...”
– John Masefield
“Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at...”
– Gandhi
“There are good men, and the quality they possess is not a matter of opinion”
– Mathew Parris
“If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. If you cannot demonstrate...”
– William Godwin
“There is no proposition at present apprehended to be true so valuable as to...”
– William Godwin
“I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the...”
– Ecclesiastes
“Although modern bullets cost only a few cents to manufacture and are so...”
– Ivan Illitch
“When so many are lonely it would be selfish to be lonely alone”
– Tennessee Williams
“If you can make a perfect cup of tea you can do anything”
– Terence Stamp
“Art should be our means of opening the passage from feeling to meaning”
– Robert Hughes
“We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never...”
– Richard Dawkins
“Believe those who are seeking truth. Doubt those who find it”
– Andre Gide
“International aid is money given by poor people in rich countries to rich people...”
– Lord Bauer
“The only exercise I get these days is from walking behind the coffins of friends...”
– Peter O’Toole
“We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to”
– Alexander Pope
“It’s not people who aren’t credit-worthy. It’s banks that...”
– Professor Muhammad Yunus
“Marriage is the death of hope”
– Woody Allen
“Racism does not involve merely exclusiveness but exclusion for the purpose of...”
– Stokely Carmichael
“(Modern media management) The ill-considered and high-minded pursuit of the...”
– Minette Marrin
“Where there is ambiguity about responsibility, there is no real accountability....”
– John Kay
“Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not.
Sex is not a crime. Describing it...”
– Gersham Legman
“Giving capital to a banker is like giving a barrel of beer to a drunk. You know...”
– Christopher Fildes
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything”
– Voltaire
“A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man at the commonplace”
– Confucious
“Unless you learn to play ping-pong properly you can never hope to be a leader of...”
– Sir George Sitwell to his son Sir Osbert Sitwell
“We trained hard to meet our challenges but it seemed as if every time we were...”
– Gaius Petronius c60AD
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”
– Eamon deValera
“If you cannot reduce your argument to a few crisp words or phrases there is...”
– Maurice Saatchi
“It is an occupational hazard of believing you know best that you find it...”
– Minette Marrin
“Banning me from Le Gavroche will have as much effect on my life as banning me...”
– Michael Winner
“We are becoming a 3H society: hypochondriacs, hypocrites and hysterics”
– Sir Anthony Grant
“Most people see the problem of love as that of being loved, rather than of...”
– Erich From
“A neurosis (in Freud’s terms) is a way of not knowing what one wants; as...”
– Adam Phillips
“A class of experts is inevitably so removed from common interests as to become a...”
– John Dewey
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little...”
– Samuel Johnson
“It is an absolute sacred rite to drink and smoke before, after, and if need be,...”
– Winston Churchill
“Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it’s done,...”
– Brendan Behan (Not really true. Eunuchs DID fuck! But why spoil a good quote?)
“To keep your marriage brimming / With love in the marriage cup, / Whenever...”
– Ogden Nash
“We find words only for what is already dead in our hearts”
– Nietzsche
“Paul Gascoigne, a child in all but shoe size”
– Barbara Ellen
“Some cultures worship their ancestors but in the English culture only the upper...”
– Tim lott
“As a singer only one thing stands between him and success: complete and utter...”
– Said by unknown critic of Tiny Tim
“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality”
– Carl Jung
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your thing”
– George Burns
“After the age of thirty most people begin to live chiefly for others, or are...”
– George Orwell