I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. – Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766 (commonly misattributed to Samuel
Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch. – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”
Im not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasnt such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didnt have to pass one. – Richard Murdoch