I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies., P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money, British humorist novelist in US (1881 1975)
GotLink.plNo one can disgrace us but ourselves., Josh Billings, US Humorist (1818 1885)
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opensonly something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands, e.e. cummings,
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable., Clifton Fadiman, US author, editor, radio host (1904 )
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term etymology was formed from the Latin etus ("eaten"), the root mal ("bad"), and logy ("study of"). It meant the study of things that are hard to swallow., Mike Kellen,