All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
Washing your best clothes on Tuesday so they’ll be almost completely dry for the weekend. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. – Harriet Ann Jacobs
