Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. Joseph Addison, Cato

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. William Shakespeare, Henry V

A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist Antony Jay / Jonathon Lynn, Sir Humphrey Appleby from the “Yes,...

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away...

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What...

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was...

?instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money...

All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously. Marcus Aurelius,...

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary,...