New Years Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. – James Agate
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isnt sex but something else. – James Agate
I… wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. – James Agate
Dont pity me now, dont pity me never; Im going to do nothing for ever and ever. – James Agate
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. – Abraham Lincoln