Famous quotes containing the words war, november, october, seventh, fish and/or flying:
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.... A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice—is often the means of their regeneration.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
“The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I don’t know.
When my lover
comes to me
and says such loving things,
do all my parts
become eyes
or ears?”
—Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)
“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, know what I mean ...”
—Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Monty Python’s Flying Circus (TV series)