The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908
Archive
Quotes
Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbIf the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbThe spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BCThere ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583