Nov 7, 2010
Quotes by Sir John Suckling
"I prithee send me back my heart, since I cannot have thine: For if from yours you will not part, Why then shouldst thou have mine? Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? out upon it, I have loved, Three whole days together, And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. 'Tis love in love that makes the ... Read More
Sep 9, 2010
Quotes by Laurence Sterne
"A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad. They order, said I, this matter better in France. As an English man does not travel to see English men, I retired to my room. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'tis all barren. The whole circle of travellers may be reduced to the following Heads: Idle Travellers, Inquisitive Travellers, Lying Travellers, Proud Travellers, Vain Travellers, Splenetic Travellers, ... Read More
Aug 10, 2010
Quotes by Laurence Sterne
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me".
Quotes by Stanislaus
"Men and women, in marrying, make a vow to love one another. Would it not be better for their happiness if they made a vow to please one another?"
Quotes by Toblas Smollett
"A seafaring man may have a sweetheart in every port; but he should steer ... Read More
Jul 12, 2010
Quotes by Jonathan Swift
"We have just enough religion us hate, but not enough to make us love one another".
Quotes by August Strindberg
"To search for God and to find the Devil - that is what happened to me".
Quotes by Robert Louis
"Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort".
Quotes by Laurence Sterne
"Whenever a man talks loudly against religion - always suspect that it is not his ... Read More
Dec 18, 2009
Quotes by Arnold Toynbee
"America is a large, friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair".
Quotes by Hunter Stockton Thompson
"America...just a nation of two hundred used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable".
Quotes by Paul Theroux
"The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness".
Quotes by Robert Louis
"For that is the mark ... Read More