A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -
George Bernard Shaw
There is no privileged past, there’s an infinitude of pasts, all equally valid - Andre Maurois
The snow began to fall at last in a sigh of relief from an overburdened sky - Jim Kelly
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men’s power to be agreeable - Jonathan Swift
Everyone knows that athletes do not share in the blessings of the mind. Beneath their mass of flesh & blood, their souls are stifled as in a sea of mud - Galen
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo - HG Wells
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence - Samuel Butler