Thursday, July 09, 2009

Previously in favourite quotations (8)

Time wastes our bodies & our wits. But we waste Time, so we are quits – Old sundial inscription


Do not think you can make a girl lovely, if you do not make her happy - John Ruskin


In the study of man it is easier to understand the species than the individual - LaRochefoucauld


Man would not know how to create a maggot, but he creates gods in the dozens - Montaigne


Our great hospitals, which should be storehouses of exact observations, made on a large scale, and for which accurate ideas should be disseminated throughout the land, are almost completely without the means of fulfilling this very important object – Benjamin Philips (1838)


The outbreak of Fenianism had furnished a rude commentary on Sir Robert Peel's statistics - Sir Spencer Walpole








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