Potbanks Quotes & Sayings

It came to me then, I am sure, for the first time, how promiscuous, how higgledy-piggledy was the whole of that jumble of mines and homes, collieries and potbanks, railway yards, canals, schools, forges and blast furnaces, churches, chapels, allotment hovels, a vast irregular agglomeration of ugly smoking accidents in which men lived as happy as frogs in a dustbin. Each thing jostled and damaged the other things about it, each thing ignored the other things about it; the smoke of the furnace defiled the potbank clay, the clatter of the railway deafened the worshipers in church, the public-house thrust corruption at the school doors, the dismal homes squeezed miserably amidst the monstrosities of industrialism, with an effect of groping imbecility. Humanity choked amidst its products, and all its energy went in increasing its disorder, like a blind stricken thing that struggles and sinks in a morass. — H.G.Wells

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least. — Baltasar Gracian

Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on. — Richard Dawkins

A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money — Ed Seykota

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen. — Marquis De Lafayette