June 2009
2 posts
May 2009
2 posts
April 2009
7 posts
“Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation...”
– Maximilien Robespierre - Head of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution and architect of the Reign of Terror.
“I rise at eleven, I dine about two,
I get drunk before seven, and the next...”
– Regime de Vivre - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
March 2009
33 posts
“But nothing with the crowd does more enhance
The value of these holy...”
– From Satyrs Upon the Jesuits by John Olham (1653-1683).
The notorious Lord Rochester was a fan - easy to see why from this.
“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part,
Nay I have done, you...”
– Michael Drayton - From Idea (1594, revised 1619)
One of my favourite poems
“A Country Farmer going cross his grounds in the Dusk of the Evening, spy’d...”
– From Joe Miller’s Jests 1739. They don’t tell ‘em like they used to.
“I quote others only to better express myself.”
– Michel de Montainge
“I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”
– Oliver Cromwell
A timeless message for all politcians
