The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet - Edward Thomas
And surely, he that hath taken the true altitude of things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred years hence, when no man can comfortably imagine what face this world will carry - Sir Thomas Browne 1605-82
Public sentiment, not the law, determines the quality of life of those who dare to live a bit differently - Matthew Syed
Godot is waiting for you - Francis Cesare
Wicked men should look older - Patricia Beer
Any living cell carries with it the experiences of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors - Max Delbruck
The brain is encased in silence & in darkness - David Eagleman
Surely thy body is thy mind - Robert Bridges
A scientist makes science the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way the peace & security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience -Albert Einstein
... the heart/ May be in peace & ready to partake/ Of the slow pleasure spring would wish to hurry -Elizabeth Jennings
That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude - William Wordsworth
The words are like a poem. They speak for themselves - Jean Claude Trichet
There are no foreign lands; it is the traveller only that is foreign - Robert Louis Stevenson
Cary Grant made men seem like a good idea -Graham McCann
It is, of course, one of lifes persistent disappointments that a great moral crisis in my life is nothing but matter for gossip in yours - Phyllis Rose
If a historian is not in some sense a revisionist then she must be a plagiarist -Stephen Howe
Nous n’irions plus aux bois
Les lauriers sont coupés - Théodore de Banville
Marx talks a lot of sense, until he doesnt - Jeanette Winterson
Our destiny lies in our endocrine glands - Albert Einstein
If marital stability is a goal for children (as I am sure it is), then why have so many people reared in stable households been unable to repeat that stability in their own lives? - Mark Berelowitz
My room in London was on the ground floor & the daylight reached it in sadly damaged condition – Henry James
Compromise is only the beginning of a new argument - Lancelot Hogben
The cat has a diapason of sounds – Harry Elmer Barnes
Writers must write. They do not however have to publish – Victoria Glendinning
Change is seldom enjoyed by the aging, whether they be individuals or nations - Langston Hughes
And surely, he that hath taken the true altitude of things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred years hence, when no man can comfortably imagine what face this world will carry - Sir Thomas Browne 1605-82
Public sentiment, not the law, determines the quality of life of those who dare to live a bit differently - Matthew Syed
Godot is waiting for you - Francis Cesare
Wicked men should look older - Patricia Beer
Any living cell carries with it the experiences of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors - Max Delbruck
The brain is encased in silence & in darkness - David Eagleman
Surely thy body is thy mind - Robert Bridges
A scientist makes science the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way the peace & security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience -Albert Einstein
... the heart/ May be in peace & ready to partake/ Of the slow pleasure spring would wish to hurry -Elizabeth Jennings
That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude - William Wordsworth
The words are like a poem. They speak for themselves - Jean Claude Trichet
There are no foreign lands; it is the traveller only that is foreign - Robert Louis Stevenson
Cary Grant made men seem like a good idea -Graham McCann
It is, of course, one of lifes persistent disappointments that a great moral crisis in my life is nothing but matter for gossip in yours - Phyllis Rose
If a historian is not in some sense a revisionist then she must be a plagiarist -Stephen Howe
Nous n’irions plus aux bois
Les lauriers sont coupés - Théodore de Banville
Marx talks a lot of sense, until he doesnt - Jeanette Winterson
Our destiny lies in our endocrine glands - Albert Einstein
If marital stability is a goal for children (as I am sure it is), then why have so many people reared in stable households been unable to repeat that stability in their own lives? - Mark Berelowitz
My room in London was on the ground floor & the daylight reached it in sadly damaged condition – Henry James
Compromise is only the beginning of a new argument - Lancelot Hogben
The cat has a diapason of sounds – Harry Elmer Barnes
Writers must write. They do not however have to publish – Victoria Glendinning
Change is seldom enjoyed by the aging, whether they be individuals or nations - Langston Hughes
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