Adelaide Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important…

— Henry David Thoreau

“throats in a dreadful silence. The infection will spread outward from that point. Old ladies will crack skulls with their deadly handbags. Cars will…

— John D. MacDonald

Normally, when New York catches a cold, London sneezes.

— Nigel Farage

“the last few miles of the Atlantic Ocean back to England with all of the jewellery hidden in her knickers. Granny”

— David Walliams

The great white cold walks abroad!

— Richard Hovey

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

— Vera Brittain

“When she shines we all bask in her happiness, but when the thunderstorms come in, let me warn you, find a faraway hiding hole."…

— Suzanne Crowley

London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

— Klemens von Metternich

“in 1955 the CIA released the whooping cough virus over Tampa, Florida without telling anyone, so they could see how quickly it would spread;…

— Jack Goldstein

The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's…

— Jenny Shipley

straightway like a bell Came low and clear The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas

— James Kenneth Stephen