Annoying Quote by William Cowper

Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.

— Henry VIII of England

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their…

— Winston Churchill

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Banishing those evil twins: -Talk about values -Don’t assume people understand your motives -Don’t be above explaining yourself -Dare to invite feedback -Understand the…

— Gill Geisler

“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral law, no…

— Herman Bavinck

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of…

— C. S. Lewis

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing…

— William Cowper

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful…

— James Madison

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new…

— Chiang Kai-shek

For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might…

— Max Stirner

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their…

— Walter Scott

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look…

— Walter Bagehot