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“I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.”
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“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
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“I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.”
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“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”
Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147
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“Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”
Source : 'Listener' 6 June 1963
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“If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.40, Courier Corporation
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“...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.”
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“Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!”
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“Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.”
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“I find folding laundry very relaxing.”
