Society and the World

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget.

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget.

A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread

Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,

The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;

For the great Gaels of Ireland

That lyf so short,

Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee

A likerous mouth moste han a likerous tayl.

This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,

Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention’s goal.

There are only two families in the world … the haves and the have-nots.

There are only two families in the world … the haves and the have-nots.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics.

‘What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,

‘What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,

He’s an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’

‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’

A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly fools.