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"I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"A plague o' both your houses" »William Shakespeare
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"Let a short Act of parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they 're ended." »Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, Prologue
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"Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended." »Colley Cibber
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"houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." »Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623
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"The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness." »Prophet Mohammed
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"houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." »Francis Bacon
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"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them." »Henry David Thoreau
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"All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity." »Alcaeus
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"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic." »Winston Churchill
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"In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do." »Anthony Sampson
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"Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; ?Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer." »Omar Khayyam
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"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith." »Bertrand Russell V. Delong
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"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!" »Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
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"One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away." »D. H. Lawrence
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"Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science." »Henri Poincare
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"Science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science." »Henri Poincare
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"For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."" »J.W.N. Sullivan
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