Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which… — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump… — George Will Copy Share Image
As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
