Reginald Innes Pocock quotes
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The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
-- Reginald Innes Pocock
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Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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Haste is a poor counselor
