"If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing."

-- O. Henry

#New York Quotes #Feet Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss.”
“The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.”
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”
“A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE'S FRAGRANCE.”
“Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.143
“It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.”
“What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?”
“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.”

Source : Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945

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