A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt Category: Names
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden Category: Names
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. – Thomas C. Haliburton Category: Names
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. – Junius Category: Religion
I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 – Bible Category: Conflict
There are better alternatives… Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium. – Bob Brown Category: Technology
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike. – Serge Schmemann Category: car
