“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.” WorldWayMadeStillsTwoStoriesCultureHeavenHistoryHumourMetsJokesBlindHistoricalEmpiresHandfulAstonishingContagiousBulliedStoutBlind DateGreat Historical Author:A. A. Gill
“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?” MindHumansGirlHeavenJokesMapsHuman MindNewtonLanesPretty Girl Author:Sebastian Faulks
“Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.” HeavenGrowsWaitingWomenOughtJokesWittyWitRotten Book:Pilgrimage Source: Pilgrimage