B1st Birthdays Quotes & Sayings

Be who you are. / Give what you have. — Rose Auslander

More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more hideous language on the face of the earth than the American form of English, I should like to know what it is." (We should perhaps bear in mind that the House of Lords is a largely powerless, nonelective institution. It is an arresting fact of British political life that a Briton can enjoy a national platform and exalted status because he is the residue of an illicit coupling 300 years before between a monarch and an orange seller.) — Bill Bryson

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson

If he stayed close enough to Maggie for long enough, the dog might wind up with more education than me. Then there'd be no talking to him. — Jim Butcher

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty. — Pericles

The invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck, — Jenny Offill

The wind came tearing round the corner - especially the east wind - as if it had sallied forth, express, from the confines of the earth, to have a blow at Toby. And oftentimes it seemed to come upon him sooner than it had expected, for bouncing round the corner, and passing Toby, it would suddenly wheel round again, as if it cried 'Why, here he is! — Charles Dickens