"Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!"

-- A. P. Herbert

#Money Quotes #War Quotes #Silly Quotes

“Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.”
“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
“I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.”
“Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.”

Source : "Fictional character: Judge Judy". "Judge Judy", www.imdb.com. (1996-).
“[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.”
“Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.”
“For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.”

Source : "'L'Abeille et l'architecte' ('The Bee and the Architect')". Book by François Mitterrand, 1980.
“The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.”

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