"Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me."

-- Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves

#Drinking Quotes #Beer Quotes #Men Quotes

“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
“Edward Conardâ€™s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.”
“I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.”
“A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.”
“Did I just kill someone?" "You can't kill a dead person," Callum said. "Makes no sense.”

Source : Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.167, Penguin
“Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of photography at the Sunday Times Magazine - that's where everyone went with their photo essays in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. It was the place to get published. It is an issue. And I feel it. There's no budget. The budget-holders are very often people who've been to the professional colleges where art is not taught. So art as a part of education is something that's missing - since Thatcher's day, anyway.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.”
“Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.”

Source : 'Gotham' (1764) bk. 1, l. 215

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