Birthday Letters Page 61 Quotes & Sayings

And maybe a ghost, trying to hear your words,/ Peered from the broken mullions/ And was stilled. Or was suddenly aflame/ With the scorch of doubled envy. Only/ Gradually quenched in understanding. — Ted Hughes

These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh. — Aravind Adiga

We are so busy wearing masks that we've forgotten who we really are — Steven Aitchison

Reclined legs don't get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out! — T.F. Hodge

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man. — Hannibal

She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next. — Alice Walker

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech. — Charles Leadbeater