Unravelling Spelling Quotes & Sayings

They sat and drank their pints. The tables in which their faces were dimly reflected were dark brown, the darkest brown, the colour of Bournville chocolate. The walls were a lighter brown, the colour of Dairy Milk. The carpet was brown, with little hexagons of a slightly different brown, if you looked closely. The ceiling was meant to be off-white, but was in fact brown, browned by the nicotine smoke of a million unfiltered cigarettes. Most of the cars in the car park were brown, as were most of the clothes worn by the patrons. Nobody in the pub really noticed the predominance of brown, or if they did, thought it worth remarking upon. These were brown times. — Jonathan Coe

Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all. — John Of The Cross

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are! — William Shakespeare

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people. — Lysander Spooner

A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to know this as politics, because it plays like the work of one person, but nothing is isolated in history
certain humans are situations. — Lyn Hejinian

According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself. — Bill Cosby

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne

Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own. — Terry Tempest Williams