An Old Battleax Of A Woman Said

People Who Are Not Prepared To Do Unpopular Things And Defy The Clamor Of The Multitude Are Not Fit To Be Ministers In Time Of Difficulty.

It Is Not Given To Human Beings, Happily For Them, For Otherwise Life Would Be Intolerable, To Foresee Or To Predict To Any Large Extent The Unfolding Course Of Events.

It Is A Great Mistake To Suppose That Thrift Is Caused Only By Fear; It Springs From Hope As Well As From Fear; Where There Is No Hope, Be Sure There Will Be No Thrift.

He Looks Like A Female Llama Who Has Been Surprised In The Bath.

I Had Been Brought Up And Trained To Have The Utmost Contempt For People Who Got Drunk - And I Would Have Liked To Have The Boozing Scholars Of The Universities Wheeled Into Line And Properly Chastised For Their Squalid Misuse Of What I Must Ever Regard As A Gift Of The Gods.